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Hopefully this 1889-S Morgan dollar is ok.

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

    Ok as far as authenticity?

  • KollectorKingKollectorKing Posts: 4,820 ✭✭✭✭✭

    ok, meaning problem free
    I know it’s authentic.

  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,884 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Other than seeing what it really looks like (I doubt it is orange) it looks great to me.

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  • GluggoGluggo Posts: 3,566 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 12, 2018 5:11PM

    Is that a die crack above “ STATES”

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

    Your coin has brown dip stains all over both sides. It was not neutralized properly. See if you can see them, otherwise I'll be back.

    PS I'm curious. Why are you buying raw coins?? IMHO, you should be buying coins that are slabbed by our host or one of the other services.

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

    @Gluggo said:
    Is that a die crack above “ STATES”

    Yes.

  • KollectorKingKollectorKing Posts: 4,820 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Insider2 said:
    Your coin has brown dip stains all over both sides. It was not neutralized properly. See if you can see them, otherwise I'll be back.

    PS I'm curious. Why are you buying raw coins?? IMHO, you should be buying coins that are slabbed by our host or one of the other services.

    The coins I’ve been posting were acquired years before TPGs. They’ve been in 2x2 flips or 2x2 plastic & stored in my closet until now that I can take pics w/my IPhone.

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,667 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 12, 2018 6:38PM

    I think that he the coins he has showing us are pieces he has had for years. That is an impression, not a certainty.

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  • blitzdudeblitzdude Posts: 6,371 ✭✭✭✭✭

    looks authentic to me. Should have use the tarn-x on the dip though, dip it again.

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  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,667 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I too think that the coin is genuine and more than likely high grade. Photos are not that easy to judge.

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  • tradedollarnuttradedollarnut Posts: 20,182 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @BillJones said:
    I too think that the coin is genuine and more than likely high grade. Photos are not that easy to judge.

    Define ‘high grade’? I seen 61 at the absolute most and the distinct possibility of a no grade due to the repeating pattern of pockmarks on the neck and field. Those don’t look like bagmarks - they look like damage.

  • BlindedByEgoBlindedByEgo Posts: 10,754 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I saw those marks and thought of a relatively gentle ice pick attack, although I think if it graded it would come back 62. Splitting hairs, really.

    @tradedollarnut said:

    @BillJones said:
    I too think that the coin is genuine and more than likely high grade. Photos are not that easy to judge.

    Define ‘high grade’? I seen 61 at the absolute most and the distinct possibility of a no grade due to the repeating pattern of pockmarks on the neck and field. Those don’t look like bagmarks - they look like damage.

  • BruceSBruceS Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 12, 2018 9:54PM

    Luster 66
    Wear 66
    Hits 62

    Depending on how they define hits to get tha grade is subjective like all grades. I would give it a straight 64.


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  • batumibatumi Posts: 838 ✭✭✭✭

    Genuine w/obverse damage.

  • abcde12345abcde12345 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Back in the day all those little BB hits on the cheek and neck would have caused your Morgan to be downgraded.
    Used to call this year the Pellican Dollar (for obvious reasons). Enjoy it raw. As usual, I don't recommend sending it into
    our host for grading.

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,667 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 13, 2018 6:17AM

    I think it's worth a shot at have it graded. As a raw coin, it will never bring much of a price.

    Maybe the marks on the neck look bad in person, but I don't see where they are that bad in the photo. I've Mint State graded dollars with big marks on the cheek that were much worse and directly in a focal point of the design. You have to remember when you look at blow-up photo like this that every mark looks bigger.

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  • 3keepSECRETif2rDEAD3keepSECRETif2rDEAD Posts: 4,285 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @abcde12345 said:
    Back in the day all those little BB hits on the cheek and neck would have caused your Morgan to be downgraded.
    Used to call this year the Pellican Dollar (for obvious reasons). Enjoy it raw. As usual, I don't recommend sending it into
    our host for grading.

    That’s funny about the pelican dollar...but I’m pretty sure this is the first time I’ve read you suggest not to send something (actually anything really that’s eligible) in to our host for express service, uninsured, with no return address...why the change of heart? ;)

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A nice Morgan with some distracting hits on the neck and lower cheek... unfortunately, these are areas of focus on Morgan dollars....So if you send it in for grading, do not expect a high grade. Let us know if you do, will be interesting to see the results. Cheers, RickO

  • abcde12345abcde12345 Posts: 3,404 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @3keepSECRETif2rDEAD said:

    @abcde12345 said:
    Back in the day all those little BB hits on the cheek and neck would have caused your Morgan to be downgraded.
    Used to call this year the Pellican Dollar (for obvious reasons). Enjoy it raw. As usual, I don't recommend sending it into
    our host for grading.

    That’s funny about the pelican dollar...but I’m pretty sure this is the first time I’ve read you suggest not to send something (actually anything really that’s eligible) in to our host for express service, uninsured, with no return address...why the change of heart? ;)

    31 flags did the trick.

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,059 ✭✭✭✭✭

    that looks nice to me as far as the strike is concerned. jmo :)

  • DollarAfterDollarDollarAfterDollar Posts: 3,215 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'd send it to be graded but wouldn't be shocked if it body bagged. Those pin holes are borderline damage.

    If you do what you always did, you get what you always got.

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