Just a neat gold shield Morgan I picked up. 1896 O Au50
Spartcom5
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May not be the most expensive coin but I have grown fond of these original patina Morgan dollars. Found this for $88 which is tad more than what I wanted to pay but regardless bought it anyways! Seems to be a tilted O Vam. Any idea which one?
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Looks like a solid original coin, and many AU50s are obviously cleaned. $88 is a fine price. Nice pick-up!
Nice old Morgan... the O - when enlarged - looks as if it may be an RPM...could also just be accumulated crud... Check it out. Cheers, RickO
Nice Morgan!
Don't quote me on that.
nice pick up, congrats
I did not see a RPM on the VAMWorld page...nice looking Morgan!
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Nice, original EF coin. Good acquisition for any collection.
Nice, I like it !!!
Kind of a weird thing to say when PCGS has graded it AU50.
I'm guessing that means Roger does not agree with PCGS
He usually doesn’t.
I like the look of that one too. Very nice!
Nice pick-up. I like it.
I don't usually care for Morgan's, but I like this one.
I sometimes disagree with all of the TPGs....so I don't single out one or another. The old-type, standard, reliable definition of 'AU' is close to unitary --- only a trace of wear/abrasion and or disturbance of field luster is permitted in an AU coin. Bag abrasion is easily separated from handling abrasion, so a banged up coin might actually be uncirculated, and a nearly flawless coin with disturbed fields or high point rub will grade AU. Grade inflation further muddies the situation and erodes reliability of assigned "grades."
From viewing the photos, the coin has far too much wear to be AU and thus can only be EF - although certainly a nice specimen.
I agree. It needs to be _**almost **_uncirculated. The grade doesn't exist in world coin grading - or at least it didn't used to until American collectors jumped in and pushed the pricing up. AU was the equivalent of gEF (good Extremely Fine). Almost uncirculated would be like almost pregnant. If there is wear that can be detected, then the AU grade is not appropriate.
And the other thing I like to grade weakly struck coins is to grade them for the details shown, then add, "as struck". So if you have a weakly struck 1924-S Buffalo Nickel that has full luster, it would grade "VF - as struck". This coin would then be priced higher than a VF from wear, but below that of what a fully struck uncirculated coin would sell for.
It may not be the most expensive BUT she has a LOVELY patina alright. Congrats....what's a few dollars if you're happy
*Don't have comment on the VAM I am not familiar with.
Cool Morgan for sure, Nice Work
...edit to fix after removing the bbq sauce off of my iPhone screen...can’t they make these things sticky proof???...smart phones my ass