No cheating ....lots of ways to interpret this coin....I'll reveal the grade tomorrow (Monday the 30th).
MS 64 ...nice look overall; some hits in focal areas (but these seem to be more acceptable on gold coins from what I have seen)
I already humiliated myself on the last double-eagle GTG. I'm just going to stay in the audience for this one.
The hard part with these pictures is I have *absolutely* no idea what the luster is like, and that plays a big part of the grade.
Is the best way to determine luster to look at the coin under light and angle it different ways, PF ?
I can understand why you are saying that but the fact that the photo is a Heritage glamour shot leads me to believe its graded at least MS65. Those colors are unusual for gold but not so crazy that I would think heat was applied.