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Message:: [QUOTE="lordmarcovan, post: 4941703, member: 10461"]VF35 is way too low. I would say XF45, but only because I'd hope to see more luster for AU50.  Really, I see nothing holding this coin back from AU otherwise, in terms of details.  It has nice steel-grey toning.  May have had an old cleaning generations ago, but I would call it "market acceptable" on that front. Sure, there are a few faint hairlines and marks here and there, but they appear consistent with the grade and I would not call them problems.  Of minor concern is a flattening of the rim by Liberty's toe.  Is that a light rim bump/bruise?  Has the reeding on the edge been affected there? Overall, it is a very handsome coin, in my opinion. <a href="http://www.numismedia.com/cgi-bin/coinprice.cgi?script=sethlv&searchtype=any&searchtext=fmv&search=any&nmcode=14615400&guide=prices&guide2=pricesms" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.numismedia.com/cgi-bin/coinprice.cgi?script=sethlv&searchtype=any&searchtext=fmv&search=any&nmcode=14615400&guide=prices&guide2=pricesms" rel="nofollow">Numismedia trends</a> put the (retail) value at $168 in XF40 and $240 in AU50. Extrapolating from that, and assuming XF45 (and no severe rim bumps), one gets a $175-ish value, but I'd shave the estimate down a bit, to $150-ish at retail, just to be conservative.  (Actually, in the real world, that might still be a tad high.)[/QUOTE]