Take a guess on what the coin shop I bought this 1900 Indian Graded it at. Sorry for the photos taken through the 2X2. Also try to guess what I paid. I took photos in two different types of lighting to represent it better. Sorry for missing two options in the poll, the other two were BU BN and Details. Also, What do you think it's grade is. Edited, Here are new photos.
The coin shop could have called it literally any one of those options, and I would not be surprised. Usually, they would have it priced accordingly as well. Since you appear to have bought it, I'm guessing that they called it a somewhat low grade. That bottom set of pictures makes it look really rough/fake.... Going with the top set of pictures, I'm going to say that it should grade AU-50, and is probably worth somewhere around $20.
Here's another photo of it in another kind of lighting. Unfortunately, none of my photos so far have captured how nice the cartwheel luster is. Also, photo one is on a floor, with just a little natural light. Photo two is on a window sill with flooded with light. Photo three is taken on a floor with some amount of natural light.
I'll say the shop graded it VF, and you paid like $3 for it. ... I would grade it AU and buy it in a NY minute for VF $$
Almost the exact same happened at my LCS when I 1st started collecting... VF must be a catch-all grade/price for IHCs in a shop setting.... They probably pay $.50-$1.00 for such coins....
