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What is this stuff on the Morgan
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I was looking at some MS Morgans on ebay, particularly at how good is the strike on eagle's breast.
This below coin is so covered with (?) something, that it is hard to see the breast feather details.
What is this, and is it at all surprising that it is straight-graded?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/114931987461?hash=item1ac27af405:g:S4kAAOSwQp1hIVbR
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I’m sure I’ll be corrected if I’m wrong but my gut says it’s been thumbed.
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Hard to tell from the photo. It could be chatter that broke the frostiness. O mint Morgans tend to have weaker breast feather details. See the arrow, it looks similar.
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The 'stuff' is everywhere. Looks damned ugly, to my way of thinking...
@moursund chatter can be very distracting. Morgan dollars below 65 grade tend to have quite a lot.
Edit AU and Mint state Morgans. lower grades have the chatter worn off and can have a very pleasing look in XF in my opinion
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It’s bag friction form rubbing against other silver dollars when being moved around in bags for the first 60 years of its life. Other than that it is an avg and unremarkable bag dollar in (slightly) better than avg survivor condition.
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Looks perfectly normal to me. There no foreign substance present.
that is light toning
That lighting doesn't help the coin at all. It could have a slightly hazy skin, it could have old dip residue. Light frost/white on the devices isn't necessarily a bad sign, and can be quite common. Long story short, I wouldn't buy the coin with those photos, and it's hard to really comment on the coin with those photos, too.
Nothing I would even spend a minute worrying about and I have OCD.
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good to know. I need to look at a few thousand more Morgans, and maybe ask a few more questions, and get more excellent responses like those above.
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If you need to see true close up images of the coins you are buying I suggest you buy at place like Heritage Auctions they know there are people like me with OCD. You know what you are getting and if not contact them they will help you.
Usually their images are more than enough to answer all your concerns. Ebay sellers can also have nice images but some just don't.
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The coin has some skin and the lighting angle makes it look dull. You can tell by photo 1, which is slightly yellowish.
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Looks to be a normale New Orleans strike in 1904 for the weak breast detail - could it be some "haze" from a previous holder or flip before it was slabbed? Coin is dull and lifeless, not much eye appeal for a 64
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There is no 'stuff' on the features... it is high point rub, likely from other coins, that breaks the frost. Cheers, RickO