Thank you everybody who chimed in with their "50 cents worth..." much appreciated. I thought VF-20 myself, and agree it may have been rubbed clean at one time or another, but not chemically cleaned. It has that purple-pink-grey tinge to it that I've seen on a lot of worn-down Edward VII's. I got it cheap, and it was better than the graded VG-8 I had before, so I'm good with it in my album! The two crowns are especially nice and still detailed for a VF-20, I think