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PCGS MS64 1895-S Morgan Dollar, comments good bad or indifferent?

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  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Your coin is graded by one of the top grading services. Looks OK. What more is there to say?

  • KollectorKingKollectorKing Posts: 4,820 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 31, 2018 10:34AM

    @Insider2 said:
    Your coin is graded by one of the top grading services. Looks OK. What more is there to say?

    Soft , weak strike for an S mint, perhaps?

  • Insider2Insider2 Posts: 14,452 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited May 31, 2018 10:37AM

    While noticeable, the glare of your photo "masks" much of it. In the past few years, I've noticed a tendency not to be concerned as in the past with a coin's strike. The coin is NOT an MS-65.

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,636 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The picture sucks! lol
    I'm sure it's nice in hand. o:)

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,636 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just looked at the true view, it's actually a very nice looking coin.

  • RollermanRollerman Posts: 1,894 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice looking MS64 in the true view.
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  • KoveKove Posts: 2,038 ✭✭✭✭

    Nice coin, good date, properly graded, what's not to like?

  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,773 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What is with the scratches between the leaves and the bottom of the left wing on the reverse?

  • RogerBRogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice 1895-S. Agree with the grade.

  • REALGATORREALGATOR Posts: 2,638 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks like that one mark on the cheek cost 2 points. Still, a nice one!

  • Wabbit2313Wabbit2313 Posts: 7,268 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks like a 64 to me. The scuffs in the field in front of her head would hold it back from anything higher.

  • rln_14rln_14 Posts: 686 ✭✭✭✭

    looks real good to me, my 95-s is vg8

  • jmlanzafjmlanzaf Posts: 35,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Smudge said:
    What is with the scratches between the leaves and the bottom of the left wing on the reverse?

    If you blow up the truview image, the entire reverse field is full of lines as is half of the obverse. I assume, given the grade, that they are die polish lines not scratches. But that is not an attractive 64, in my opinion.

  • Wabbit2313Wabbit2313 Posts: 7,268 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's a newly graded coin, thus the 64. In the 90's, this would have been a 65.

  • JcldJcld Posts: 449 ✭✭✭

    The photo is hard to see detail, the True View shows why it is a 64. That gash on the cheek holds it back I think.

  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,773 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @jmlanzaf said:

    @Smudge said:
    What is with the scratches between the leaves and the bottom of the left wing on the reverse?

    If you blow up the truview image, the entire reverse field is full of lines as is half of the obverse. I assume, given the grade, that they are die polish lines not scratches. But that is not an attractive 64, in my opinion.

    Thanks. I saw them all, just mentioned where they appeared most offensive. I thought that was it, just wanted to confirm. I appreciate your input.

  • bidaskbidask Posts: 14,017 ✭✭✭✭✭

    No CAC sticker ?

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  • 7Jaguars7Jaguars Posts: 7,690 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That mark bugs me but I would take this coin at a 64 before the other posted 65+ coin at its "price".

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  • mannie graymannie gray Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @7Jaguars said:
    That mark bugs me but I would take this coin at a 64 before the other posted 65+ coin at its "price".

    Agreed.
    I think the best bang for the buck are MS64 and PR64 coins, carefully selected for quality.
    You can get 90% of the coin for 50% of the money....... sometimes even less.

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,683 ✭✭✭✭✭

    In the True View photo, the light scratch under Ms. Liberty's eye provides the reason why the coin did not grade higher. The MS-64 grade is accurate.

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A nice 64 Morgan.... the grade is accurate IMO.... Thanks for the TruView.... much better than trying to judge the slab picture. Cheers, RickO

  • ChrisH821ChrisH821 Posts: 6,661 ✭✭✭✭✭

    It's nice. I actually quite like all the die polish and the die crack that originates at the P in Pluribus into her hair and continues out of it. To me those are the sorts of things that give a coin a "personality" additional to the design.

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  • SoldiSoldi Posts: 2,177 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I have a really nice one with a CAC sticker in VF 30. I keep looking, but I won't pass over the AU 55 mark with the budget.
    Your coin is very nice

  • ColonelJessupColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 1, 2018 3:19PM

    That's lovely and just misses 64+ based on the depth/length of the mark @BillJones noted and the scuff from "E . I" . When you see the 1895-S PCGS MS66DMPL the late Mike DeFalco once handled, you will be distracted by the die polish lines. They affect a significant portion of this date,

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  • BustyPotatoBustyPotato Posts: 81 ✭✭✭

    Does the dot by the neck of the eagle on the reverse hurt the grade? I ask because others have brought up a few things they didn't like on the obverse but no one seems to mention that dot. Still an insanely nice Morgan!

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  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 9,669 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I can see it very closely in the True View. Solid 64...just a few solitary marks keep it from gem. The strike is not completely full but is well above average and is weak only on the very highest point. I would be proud and excited to own such an example of this key date. Congratulations.

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  • MikeInFLMikeInFL Posts: 10,188 ✭✭✭✭

    The TrueView images make the coin look much better, but indifferent sums up my thoughts on the coin quite well. I'm not a collector of the series outside of type, however, so take it with a grain of salt.

    Collector of Large Cents, US Type, and modern pocket change.

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