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Look what I found... (NOT PCI) Hallmark Morgan Dollar
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I picked this up this weekend.
1881-O Morgan dollar - Pretty darn clean for MS63.
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Pretty nice looking coin.
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Real nice coin!
That's a winner for a 63. Great luster and strike
Nice find... That Morgan has plenty of luster. Every once in a while, those Hallmark slabs turn up. Cheers, RickO
Nice coin and holder!
+1! Maybe a little prooflike on the reverse too?
Technically the holder is just "Hallmark". It was its own company until it closed and sold its slabbing equipment to PCI (hence why the slabs look like OG PCI).
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Ah-h-h, the old PCI saga continues... Nice Morgan! What pop it most certainly has. Not too long ago, I too, purchased a PCI Morgan in it's now obsolete holder. Except, mine was the "photo grade" type. Are you going to crack it out or leave in? I decided to leave mine in it's holder.
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--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.As long as you didn't overpay I'd say that is one if your better purchases. A good looking coin in an old holder which itself is in great shape.
If it were mine I would use a little Goo Gone (VERY sparingly) and get the remnants of an old dealer sticker off the back.
Then I'd enjoy that coin.
No plans to crack it - I only purchased it on a whim because I recalled reading about them being scarce on these boards. It is a 64 by today's standards i would say... my photos make it look a little scuffy but it's very clean in person.
I am curious just how scarce these are. I found the sample slab website which talk about the versions known but that's about it.
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Keep an eye out for Hallmark sample slabs. Those are real scarce.
As Mothra454 said, this is an actual Hallmark slab and has no connection to PCI. Prior to Hallmark closing (1990?) PCI used the large slabs with the photo as show by Joeycoins in this thread. After Hallmark closed they sold the rights to their holder to PCI. PCI removed the Hallmark name from the slab and used it as their own. Later, sometime after 2000, the rights to the slab were bought by the Dominion Grading Service and were used by them until they closed a few years later. Dominion Grading Service never used the PCI name even though they held the rights to it. The rights to the slab were then bought by another company that I believe used the PCI name again.