Do you guys think this coin is worth sending to NGC? Nice details in hair and breast feathers, but a decent sized rim ding on the side. Thanks in advance
It's a better date, but not that much better. I don't think you'd recoup your money from submitting it.
The rim ding may or may not. The cleaning scratches would. I don't see this coin as AU, why would you have to clean an AU coin? In the current condition the value is not much more than the cost to grade it.
Do you believe AU and MS coins don't get cleaned? If the answer to that is no then you have the answer to your question