1914 10 Cents Highly Detailed With Lots Of Luster.

I look at the base of the crown on the Obv. and the tips of the leaves on the Rev.. If there is no wear, I go to the rims and look for a nice "ripple" the whole circumference.

I agree with sel_691 that it is MS
but also on the caution side with Alan as it has something different about it, almost a polished look. This may be just due to the pictures.

Nice coin.

From the pics, I'd say an ms63 with an outside chance of an ms64.

Polished 'no', but definitely dipped, but who cares, as most brilliant white coins of this age have been dipped a number of times.

I think these pics do the most justice to what I am seeing in hand & up close. There seems to be cartwheel luster. When I wobble the coin, the luster shifts around on both the reverse & obverse.

The first 2 images are animated gifs of the coin in movement. I've never uploaded one so I don't know if the forums program will accept a .gif extension file so I've included below that the stills from the gif.

That's the first time I see a GIF. on here, great idea!
MS62 as well.

Your illustration is hilarious! Great job! It certainly appears like the cartwheel effect although natural silver coins 100 or so years ago generally exhibit some level of toning. A dipped coin.....when the reference to "blast white" is used, that pretty much describes it, like a coin wearing a fake looking silver coat:-( Regardless, it's certainly not a cleaned coin and I do not see any wear. If the cost or effort of getting it stabbed is not prohibitive, I think you should go for it. The satisfaction of acquiring nice pieces and establishing their grade becomes a future measurement in gaining expertise (which I'm not there yet LOL!)

I'll make a note to post the slabbed grade results when I get it back which probably won't be until end of summer but it's noted. I think it's very appropriate to post it here. Thanks all.

Thanks! Could have made it smoother with several more frames but it's a start. Maybe I'll do that for another coin.