1909 VDB Wheat Cent For Grading

Few ticks here and there, minor flecking, should be 64RD or better.

I don't think that would be an issue yet, maybe someday, but this is an old horse and I'm thinking that spot is stable by now. I still lean toward 64RD, with minor distractions but certainly no evidence of wear. Some strike weakness perhaps, but a coin with this color has surely never circulated.

Trouble is, we don't know if the color is correct. There are no accurate references anywhere in the background from which to base a color correction opinion. With a background like this, you can do some pretty strange things to color without it giving you a hint that something's wrong....

A real nice MS-64RD , few minor issues .

A bit oversaturated - I'm having trouble reading the luster and fields. I have to go by what I can see with the given images. The distractions in the obverse field take away from the coin if they're really that prevalent. The obverse luster appears flat. Both of these could just be the lighting.

63-64RD

Suggest backing off the light some, using a white background (to show us the white balance) and cropping to just the coin. Your pictures are pretty decent, just a few tweaks and they could be very good. The goal is to make the picture replicate what you see in hand - easier said than done but you can get real close with practice. Listen to Dave, he knows his stuff!

I have no choice but to see reason to doubt, not because of any deliberate reworking on the part of the OP - of course not - but because this sort of oversaturation (as BadThad mentioned) is typical of imperfect White Balance correction.

In this case, I suspect the color is not far off - there's only a minor tinting in the background, which ought to be completely monochromatic - but experience tells me it could be, and I created the whimsical image above to illustrate just_how_far off the color could be without this specific background giving the inaccuracy away. It's why I constantly harp on monochromatic backgrounds, preferably white, from photographers who do not have expert control over White Balance yet.