Nice one indeed. I wonder, why are the areas around the portrait and the numerals (5) filled in, or at least partially filled in with black ink? It looks as if those areas were targeted deliberately.
Not worth the expense. For the most part, the revenue-collecting population eschews grading. There are some new-to-the-field collectors with deep pockets that seem to go gaga over graded stamps, but for the most part no.
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