Options
Gambled On A Raw 1881-S Morgan
Banemorth
Posts: 986 ✭✭✭
I almost never buy raw unless I'm buying at the silver value but I really thought this Morgan looked good and the price was right. Found it in a little antique shop in New England where I'm on vacation. It's not my series so I hope I didn't overpay! What do you guys think this grades at?
Justin From Jersey
Successful Transactions With: JoeLewis, Mkman123, Harry779, Grote15, gdavis70, Kryptonitecomics
Successful Transactions With: JoeLewis, Mkman123, Harry779, Grote15, gdavis70, Kryptonitecomics
0
Comments
Successful Transactions With: JoeLewis, Mkman123, Harry779, Grote15, gdavis70, Kryptonitecomics
<< <i>Yeah I had a feeling she was cleaned. Story of my life >>
not necessarily so...just hard to tell from image
pretty looking melt purchase i swear
Authorized dealer for PCGS, PCGS Currency, NGC, NCS, PMG, CAC. Member of the PNG, ANA. Member dealer of CoinPlex and CCE/FACTS as "CH5"
<< <i>I can't tell for sure if the streaks on the face are scratches, toning or remnants of a fingerprint but the coin looks nice to me. >>
It looks like a fingerprint to me. There's no scratches on the face
Successful Transactions With: JoeLewis, Mkman123, Harry779, Grote15, gdavis70, Kryptonitecomics
Successful Transactions With: JoeLewis, Mkman123, Harry779, Grote15, gdavis70, Kryptonitecomics
Many members on this forum that now it cannot fit in my signature. Please ask for entire list.
bob
<< <i>I like it. Just the wrong mint mark! Probably a nice 65 IMHO.
bob >>
Bob one day I'll own a nice CC Morgan! I do plan on submitting this one. Hoping for a 65 personally and that's what I thought it was when I bought it. Paid $70.
Successful Transactions With: JoeLewis, Mkman123, Harry779, Grote15, gdavis70, Kryptonitecomics
Based on what I can see from the images, I'd say you have a 65 there, and quite possibly a 66. Really depends on how much of that haze is on the coin flip.
If you paid close to silver value, then you did real good.
The Whisker Cheek Collection - Top 50 Peace VAM Registry
Landmark Buffalo Collection
best education going
always nice too...to have you're own examples for a per se "grading reference" and what's acceptable
i too concur
65/66 is not out the question
halo's around stars are a lil concern...but that's all...a lil concern...images are not prime to truly guess from...
nice...very nice example
Successful Transactions With: JoeLewis, Mkman123, Harry779, Grote15, gdavis70, Kryptonitecomics
<< <i>Thanks guys. Ever since I bought a couple fake Seated Dollars a couple years ago when I first got rolling I've completely avoided raw coins unless I was buying them at melt. This was the first step in what will prove to be a very long process >>
i highly recommend people spend some time in my counterfeit thread
i've been into numismatics less than 3 years and 95% of the coins i've bought are raw, and i've bought thousands and would be surprised to learn if more than 2 were altered/counterfeit, so if i can buy raw coins successfullly, anyone can. it is a simple matter of getting out what you put in.
sowwy for the off-topic OP. images are too poor to accurately guess but it sure looks like it has promise
.
<--- look what's behind the mask! - cool link 1/NO ~ 2/NNP ~ 3/NNC ~ 4/CF ~ 5/PG ~ 6/Cert ~ 7/NGC 7a/NGC pop~ 8/NGCF ~ 9/HA archives ~ 10/PM ~ 11/NM ~ 12/ANACS cert ~ 13/ANACS pop - report fakes 1/ACEF ~ report fakes/thefts 1/NCIS - Numi-Classes SS ~ Bass ~ Transcribed Docs NNP - clashed coins - error training - V V mm styles -
<< <i>halo's around stars are a lil concern...but that's all...a lil concern...images are not prime to truly guess from... nice...very nice example >>
That's what I saw, too. Those little halos don't come naturally...
mbogoman
https://pcgs.com/setregistry/collectors-showcase/classic-issues-colonials-through-1964/zambezi-collection-trade-dollars/7345Asesabi Lutho
Wonder what kind of patina it had that the previous owner found objectionable? We can only guess ...
Successful Transactions With: JoeLewis, Mkman123, Harry779, Grote15, gdavis70, Kryptonitecomics
Try new pix outside the holder
BHNC #203
Nothing wrong with buying raw coins, I must have made close to half the coins in my Barber half set (VF-XF) and I think that I had a what, 95% success rate with grading them?
I am going to do something a little different I'll make a video and post it on YouTube so you guys can more easily see the coins. It'll be educational AND fun! Once I get home from Vacation that is. Thanks again for all the kind words and help!
Successful Transactions With: JoeLewis, Mkman123, Harry779, Grote15, gdavis70, Kryptonitecomics
Spring National Battlefield Coin Show is September 5-7, 2024 at the Eisenhower Hotel in Gettysburg, PA. WWW.AmericasCoinShows.com
Good luck.
http://www.coinshop.com