1915 D Buffalo....opinions, Did ANACS Get This Right?

AU-53. The flatness of center of coin on obverse and reverse is turning me off . Not a fan of this Buff .

Pretty weak strike which is not unexpected for that year.
IMO it's low AU.

Based on the photos I'm at AU50/AU53. The toning is nice, the strike is weak and there is some minor wear on the high points. Considering ANACS has been tough on these, I'll say the grade is XF 45. Considering the high point wear, I can see it. BUT honestly, I would love to have this in my collection, it's a beautiful coin.

i think the coin has had light circulation. a lot of the flatness we are seeing is from strike. I'm not familiar with strikes on this year so not sure if its typical. in any case it would still affect grade. it does have nice toning and I'm not fan of toning but I've seen quite a few buffs that look good with it. typically I would put this in the AU58 box but I need to knock it a point for strike so AU55 is where I'm at.

This is how I approached this one.....I had this at a 55, too much wear for a 58, but really didn't feel the amount of un disturbed areas warranted a 53 (and definitely not a 50).

In hand there is no broken luster in the fields, which are pretty clean, minimal hits. Low and mid relief points have maintained most luster. There is the obvious flat spots at the usual high relief points, typical of 1913-15. Part of this is strike, but yes, there is definitely wear there as well.

Given the weakness in strike, I attributed a number of the hits in the hair just about the braid and hits to the front leg/shoulder area to planchet marks not removed by strike ( these are typical concentrated areas of excess tic marks in weak strikes). The remainder, marks made in circulation based in the number of marks in the rest of the coin.

My 17-S came back an what I feel is an honest AU-50, may post pics of that in here later for comparison.

Guess I missed the mark, (probably rightfully so haha), but I really shouldn't complain, I only have $32 into this one including grading

Thank you all for your input!!

Sorry about that CF, I typically do. In the OP I put I was just going to do a quick 24 hr. Originally was just going to post it with the grade, then decided to do a guess the grade for an unbiased opinion first. Next time I'll just do one or the other wanted to get post reveal thoughts as well.

@westernsky, is that a 7 I see under there?! Nice example. Possibly for the light diagonal scratch running through EPU? Seems petty if so.

I can see AU-50 but the coin sure looks like it was cleaned to me, especially looking at the toning.