All pictures are of the Same Coin....promised. One pair taken with sunlight, the other pair with a halogen light. I don‘t want to drool the Forum.
I have the coin in hand and see a solid MS63. Most of you not. I will send this Indian to NGC and show you the results the other day. Thanks for your Input and I wish you all the best.
I bought an 1895 Eagle for $675 in 2009. It was raw. I hadn't been collecting a lot back then. A friend of mine suggested that if I wanted a gold coin to go to a independent dealer that he had dealt with for a while. I bought two gold coins. The other coin was a 1904 Double Eagle Liberty Variety 2 for $1,275. It's been a while, but I bought them. I told him I would like to have them graded. He told me he was going to a show that weekend and he could probably get it graded cheaper if he took the coins with him. It took a while, but when I got them back the Double Eagle came back "detailed - Obverse scratched and the Eagle was graded MS-61. I don't fault the dealer. If I recall (I'm 73 and memory is sketchy at times, so my wife says.) He said he could probably get my money back, but I decided to keep them for many reasons. One is, that I learned from my purchase and grading and the other is the grading. No dealer is perfect in grading a coin. If you want your coin graded, send it to a NGC or PCGS or one of the lessor known grading companies.
Some Information from the grading process: NGC gave this coin at first glance an MS64 grade. Well, the finalizer catched it and so it‘s a 63. But it‘s ok.