Great GSA 1882-CC Morgans!

Zoins

Here are a couple of great 1882-CC Morgans from @TONEDDOLLARS!

Photo of Toned 1882-CC by Numismatic News:

https://www.numismaticnews.net/world-coins/ngc-to-showcase-stunning-toned-gsa-hoard-morgan-dollars-at-fun-show

Close ups of the Grand Snake by David Camire for MintErrorNews:

https://minterrornews.com/features-7-18-22-a-closer-look-the-gsa-1882-carson-city-morgan-dollar-off-center.html

lilolme

Here is a thread about one.

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1075962/a-super-cool-read

Zoins

@lilolme said:
Here is a thread about one.

https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1075962/a-super-cool-read

Thanks! I missed that one earlier somehow! Great thread

ricko

I still do not understand why the coin was named 'The Grand Snake'... and no one has yet provided an answer. Why and who named the coin??? Cheers, RickO

Zoins

@ricko said:
I still do not understand why the coin was named 'The Grand Snake'... and no one has yet provided an answer. Why and who named the coin??? Cheers, RickO

David Camire actually provided that info. The name is from the US Mint and "snake" is US Mint terminology for what the hobby calls "off-center".

David Camire said:
It was referred to as the “Grand Snake” by Mint technicians. The terminology used internally by the Mint does not always correspond directly to what is used in the numismatic/collecting community. Thus, a “snake” coin is referred to as an off-center by collectors.

alohagary

Awesome offcentered

fathom

Those are important toned specimens as they presumably went directly from the bag to the sorting tray and then holder.

Sidestepping the dip-friendly / AT / grubby-handed dealers and collectors. IMO that should be added value.

DrewU

A little more fun backstory on the “Grand Snake” terminology. In early 1973 the GSA started to use a photo of the dramatic 82-CC off-center Morgan to publicize the first GSA sale. They ended up issuing a press release that caught the attention of Arnie Margolis who was the editor of Error Coin Trends Magazine which was a segment of the hobby that was really starting to come into it’s own. When the GSA issued a press release calling the coin a “Grand Snake” error, Margolis wrote an irate letter to the administrator of the sale admonishing him for using nomenclature completely foreign to error collectors. This actually started a friendly dialogue that I believe led to the visit that @FredWeinberg has mentioned a few times on the boards where they went and viewed all of the various errors discovered in the trove of 2.9m coins. Here is a brief excerpt from Margolis’s 1973 Mint Errors on Carson City Silver Dollars that tells a really fun part of the story.

ricko

@Zoins... Thank you very much... That makes it clear. Cheers, RickO

NumisOxide

Wow interesting!