I whole heartedly agree, I went the long way around the barn trying to explain it but got lost on the way.
Thanks, I paid under face for the 1803 large cent in the thumbnail in my last post. Of course I found it metal detecting though. That is the strange thing about early copper, if you have a cleaned morgan in UNC condition people will stay away, but if you have a corroded early copper someone will still buy it. I think the OP's coin can be net graded to around a VG-08.