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Message:: [QUOTE="Lucky Cuss, post: 1628849, member: 44086"]Well, here's a couple more views. I'm still experimenting with technique. At least for me, it's hard to capture both luster and detail without one being at the expense of the other, and these current shots still make the coin look somewhat duller than it actually is. EDIT: I've been scouring images of other examples, and I'm pretty well convinced this one is reliably low end XF. There's a slight flattening of the hair as well as to the folds just to the right of the shield. The bottoms of the "T" and "T" in "LIBERTY" both show a little weakness. For whatever reason, the reverse is crisper and shows less wear than the obverse. If you looked just at the reverse, you might even be duped into judging it to be low AU. For that reason, I don't think it overall slips down into the VF range. I concur that it has likely been cleaned, but as I have said, I don't think that was done very recently. Unfortunately with coins this old, that's a pretty common affliction. It's still an attractive, representative example that was an absolute steal being that it was priced as VG.[/QUOTE]