Definitely A Scott 461 Minty Fresh

If I can't get this one right then I need to quit!

The bottom perfs look a little iffy to me

It's one of the offset printings. Look among Scott 526-528B.

Add: And no, you don't need to quit, but rather when you *think* you have found a stamp worth more than $1 or 2, the alarm bells should go off that you have more likely overlooked a more common 25 or 50 cent variety in the catalog. Double check and triple check.

One of the challenges to a beginner is the lack of reference material of having a quantity of other stamps to compare against. Even differentiating among the 5 offset types can be daunting with only the poor catalog illustrations to go by, rather than having a dozen or more actual stamps to sort through.

Oh no!
The stamp is curved a little, not sitting flat
Ok.

I won't quit#128514;

Appears to be Type VII. The proof is in the details. Can you show a closer photo of the head? I need to check the dots on the nose and above the lip. I'm strongly leaning toward a #528B due to some determining factors.

More information
https://stampsmarter.org/1847usa/wa...pesMain.html
Don

Sorry, that photo is too blurry. I need to count the dots, and with this photo, I'm unable to see any dots.

There are no dots on upper lip

527 Ty V no additional dots on head, toga line solid, 5 lines in button and left 2 thin line

Well your watermark detector looks rather old. In those times, people died at a much younger average age than today. Maybe the cause was people using carbon tetrachloride for watermark detection?
In any case, stay away from that stuff, if it even is available at all nowadays.
And the bottom perf row does look a little "too round".