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Message:: [QUOTE="Gallienus, post: 1573813, member: 42034"]great details, Au quality but porous? Today I just collect lowly & cheap foreign coins<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.  However years ago, right when Bust dollars were making one of their "step change price transitions" I bid on an AU 1795 Dr.B. out of Stack's.  Unfortunately I lost it which is the story of my life: thus after 40 years I've never been able to buy a Bust dollar in any grade:heated:.  Hence I packed up & moved to foreign.:dead-horse:  Normally don't these things have solid lusterous surfaces? :stormy: Your coin has the details of an AU but seems porous all over. However it could also be the photography and slightly spotty toning.  If it's just a toning/coloring issue, and there are no problems with the surfaces, then I'd say 55 at least!.  Normally even EF's are somewhat devoid of brest feathers on the Eagle.  However you'd need a specialist (or a Bolander Book) as most of my experience comes from looking at 96's & 97's.  I don't know if the 95's were better struck than the others. Loving Dr.Bust types tho, I put an ad in Coin World to buy a choice AU Dr. bust Half at $900:grandpa:. I got one but discounted it to $850 as it was just a normal AU I thought:apu:.  The guy accepted my offer.  Here's a pix, unfortunately it's just the '06.[ATTACH]215966.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]