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Message:: [QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 7381353, member: 105098"]My opinion and just that, an opinion.It's nicely centered and well struck, even his cheek mole is present. However. Right above that mole is a contact mark on his cheek that's pretty significant, theres another on his forehead, then theres a shallow one below the B in liberty and another above the R in liberty and the small one above the 4. The rest of the obverse has some small chatter marks that add up but not significantly. On the reverse it's relatively clean but again there's a significant contact mark between and above the E and C in one cent. Also a small one on the sixth column, the one to the left of lincoln. I now look back and realize you noted most of thsee marks. As a whole I can get to MS66. And this is on the centering and strike deductions for the dings I'm extra critical on my own coins, I only have one view of this one here. I can't judge the luster for instance from the picture. It may get MS67 if luster is stunning and cartwheels without interruption or highlighting the contact marks that are minor also,  but it's not going to get to MS68. MS65,66,67 it's like $5-10-15. MS68s can get to the $100-175 range. It's a nice example though, I'd love to have it in my cent folder, it's just not "clean" enough to get into MS68 and higher where the money is in my opinion.[/QUOTE]