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Need thoughts for a grade for this morgan. Is it even worth it?
DynamiteDD
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Ok. I have this 1878 8 tail feathers Morgan dollar I am considering grading and, since I am no expert in Morgans especially, idk what grade it would get or if it's even worth sending it in for a grade. What do you guys think? 
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From the photos it looks cleaned. Not worth grading.
AU details cleaned
Even if it was problem free, it wouldn’t be worth slabbing.
Ditto. Not UNC, not worth the $40 to slab it.
@DynamiteDD.... Welcome aboard. Looks AU, cleaned... A fair amount of marks/dings on the obverse face and fields of the reverse. Not worth the grading fees.... self slab for preservation. Cheers, RickO
You could send it in, see what/if it grades and use the results as part of your education on how Morgan dollars are graded, or you can purchase a nice AU example already slabbed by PCGS and compare it to other coins you're interested in having graded in the future. Either way, it's a learning process. Welcome aboard!
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If I were to send it in somewhere just to see what grade I could get, where would you suggest I send it? A lot of the previous comments say that it's cleaned, so I don't want to spend top dollar to send it somewhere like PCGS and have it come back as cleaned, but I am curious as to what grade it could get regaurdless.
Save yourself the money and don’t waste your time and effort having some 2nd or third tier grading company offer their opinion.
Their opinions are often inflated and meaningless except to those using to use their sometimes inflated opinions to market their products to unsuspecting buyers.
It’s an XF- ‘maybe low AU-
Take it to a coin show and ask some dealers their opinions perhaps.
That would be free.
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The large series of small scratches, many of them parallel to one another, indicates that the coin has been cleaned.
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As stated before by others - it's a low AU coin. So grade would be au details - cleaned. What more do you want? Do you want to see your coins in slabs? If so then send them to ANACS. I think they charge around 12$ per coin plus all the shipping charges............. but really you will still be wasting your money.
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I suggest that you light a $50 dollar bill on fire and watch it burn, that is the same benefit you will get by sending this coin in to any TPG for grading. Seriously it is not worth grading and you will learn nothing by sending it to some low level or basement slabber for a worthless (possibly overblown) opinion.
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This level of snark is so unnecessary here. My suggestion that the OP learn how to understand grading based on a TPG's opinion is merely a part of their education in learning how Morgans are graded. You've literally given the OP no useful advice while only serving your own subjectivity regarding TPG services.
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Not worth the cost of all the fees.
From the responses that you've gotten so far I think you can save the grading costs, and you should have a pretty good idea at what the grade of the coin is: cleaned with AU details. Welcome to the forum. May I suggest that you get to looking at as many coins as you possibly can that are already in respected third party grading slabs to help you get an idea as to how the professionals grade coins.
First there was nothing snarky in my reply just truth, and if you had paid attention I did not quote or reply to your post. Second as you have already taken offense; for absolutely no reason; your shotgun approach (which I did not respond to or quote) will only have this person spend lots of money on your idea of "tuition" and he will have no knowledge to show for it. You don't learn to grade by randomly sending in lots of coins to various TPG's to see what you get back. You learn to grade by looking at lots and lots (AND LOTS) of already graded coins in person (and photos) looking only at the coins not the label. When you can begin to assign a grade that is very close to or exactly what a top TPG like NGC or PCGS does then you are ready to decide what to submit because you can expect what to get back.
Just like in school you don't learn anything by having the answers given to you, you learn by doing the homework and then you test your new skills.
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Welcome to the forum
I too, had a Morgan 8 tail feathers variety wondering if I should send in? In my situation it was a NO Brainer! My Dad self engraved all us 5 kids Morgan/Peace dollars with our names on one side and our birthdays on the other. Even though the coins are ruined, they are worth a whole lot more in my eyes. That's why I had them certified by our Host. And also personalized.
Dad's Dollar
This one here is my younger sister's. It's actually valued at $125, but not really.
If interested,
here are two more certified Dad's Dollars I have. Two more, yet to have graded.
My brother's
1926s Peace
And of course, mine
1921s Morgan
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Sorry, to get off your op subject. Thanks
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