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Message:: [QUOTE="The_Cave_Troll, post: 139238, member: 1674"]yep, that's it, her photos mailed were MUCH more useful that the ones in the auction.  I seriously misjudged the coin when it was first presented in the post and after getting the new photos I decide to try to get it. I took it to my dealer yesterday for an opinion and he offered nearly what I paid, so it worked out.  I looked through a bunch of photos of XF and AU coins on Heritage and Teletrade and this one is easily better than every XF I saw, details wise, no XF's had anywhere near such full skirt lines as this coin.  Remember that the pre-21 coins are graded much differently than the later years.  The issue in my mind is the dark toning that is masking nearly all the luster.  In fact the only luster I see through the toning is around her right arm (facing left) and in front of her face and then a tiny bit above her left shoulder and between Liberty and the sun, on the rev the only luster visible is around LF DOLL of "half dollar".  I like the toning, it is original and natural looking, but there would be (IMO) a fair amount of luster revealed if I sent the coin to NCS to be conserved and it may be worth that if improved eye appeal would bump the grade.[/QUOTE]