VF-30 at best. The shattered die does make some of the bust weak, but the coin is pretty worn on the high parts and throughout the hair. The rev. is nice though, except that it looks like it may have been cleaned a while back.
Well, my father visited this weekend and he brought this coin with him. One of his co-workers had come across it in his father-in-laws house and had offered it to my father for $30. He doesn't collect much that isn't 20th century, so he decided to offer it to me. I paid $45, and am very happy with it! It is an o-104 and the die crack through the hundreds digit of the date is diagnostic. It is the 4th die marriage to use this obverse die (thus all the die cracks) and by the time the 104's were made the obverse die was very well worn. The pictures in Peterson are of a heavily-circulated looking obverse, since there just wasn't enough detail left in the die by the time the 104's were struck to have a good looking obverse. I graded it a VF35 based on that info, so I'm glad to get some other opinions in that range. Thanks for your help guys! Anyway, it is now in my type set (the non-holed one) and I am very happy with it.
VF30 as per ANA standards Obverse - Curls above eye, ear & clasp are worn and almost smooth in spots. Balance of hair is well detailed. Ear & shoulder clasp show clearly. Drapery and eye are well defined. Star centers are weak. Reverse - Feathers are worn but most details are visible. Some details in neck, shield and talons are well worn. Eyelid is visible. Horizontal shiled lines are flat but separated. Seems like that description fits the coin pretty well to me. But just to calrify a point - one of the qualifiers for the EF40 grade is this - "Star details are complete." That means ALL of the star's details, not a just a couple of stars.
