Is This 1931 D Penny Cleaned?

SsuperDdave that color looks a lot better however when in hand it really does have that gold color.

It will, as long as you look at it under a light which casts that color upon it. The human eye doesn't do "color correction." The eye feeds you what it sees.

Go to a local big-box home improvement store, and look in the light bulb aisle. Chances are there'll be a display of the varying color temperatures of the bulbs they sell, individual lights illuminating the same printed scene. It'll be an education on the effect of color temperature on the human eye if you haven't seen it before.

As humans, we've decided (likely genetically) that "normal" color is that as seen under midday sunlight. Cameras can correct to this ideal; the eye cannot. So when you correct to that 5000-5500 Kelvin "ideal," the color may not look right to you because you don't look at your coins in-hand that way. You probably look at them under incandescent lighting, which will always add a yellowish cast to the coin.

And that's the takeaway about coin photography. The color of a coin you see represented on the monitor may not be the "real" color of the coin, and even if it is you might not see it that way. And the next observer with a differently-calibrated monitor might not see the same color you do anyway.

This must be a major factor in your evaluation of online images.

For the 2nd coin, I'd say EF-40, but a sharper image might suggest a higher grade (what looks like wear now might actually be blurriness).

Are these photos any better?

I agree with Coinfrog

Is the OP me? Thanks Coinfrog! I'm trying my best because I know that better pictures means more accurate advice