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PCGS MS64 1895-S Morgan Dollar, comments good bad or indifferent?
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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?
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.
The flash glare in your image is obstructing the details which may be deceptive to the observers inclination. The gash on her cheek holds her back from 65, and is very apparent on the TrueView image.
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The picture sucks! lol
I'm sure it's nice in hand.
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Just looked at the true view, it's actually a very nice looking coin.
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Nice looking MS64 in the true view.
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Nice coin, good date, properly graded, what's not to like?
What is with the scratches between the leaves and the bottom of the left wing on the reverse?
Nice 1895-S. Agree with the grade.
Looks like that one mark on the cheek cost 2 points. Still, a nice one!
Looks like a 64 to me. The scuffs in the field in front of her head would hold it back from anything higher.
looks real good to me, my 95-s is vg8
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.
It's a newly graded coin, thus the 64. In the 90's, this would have been a 65.
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.
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No CAC sticker ?
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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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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.
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.
A nice 64 Morgan.... the grade is accurate IMO.... Thanks for the TruView.... much better than trying to judge the slab picture. Cheers, RickO
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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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
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,
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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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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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.