For Grading Opinions: 1899 Morgan Dollar

CoinHunter4

What do you think of her?

What grade do you think PCGS would give it if I submitted it?

Thanks!

braddick

Strong XF45.
A light cleaning (baking soda?) keeps it from AU, in my opinion.

Eldorado9

Can't get a good feel for the luster in that photo. It does look to have some wear from circulation, and perhaps a cleaning. Maybe 50?

ricko

I would say an XF45....Cheers, RickO

291fifth

Cleaned XF45. Not worth slabbing. OK for an album.

coastaljerseyguy

I think AU50 details cleaning.

124Spider

45, cleaned. There is no economic reason to slab it, IMO.

dhikewhitney

Cleaned, XF 40 details

logger7

Luster would be key on that to determine grade which is hard to see.

TomB

I think your white balance is off, which will affect the guessed grades. Regardless, I see the coin as going from EF45 through AU50.

The better question, in my opinion, is why would you want to sink $40-$50 into grading a coin that is common and worth $125-$175?

coinkat

I grade it... Album Coin. That is a nice look for someone assembling a Whitman blue bookshelf or Dansco set

AUandAG

45

vplite99

I would say 40.

DollarAfterDollar

I see enough remaining luster to believe the coin may not be cleaned but rather just poorly photographed. If that's the case it's only AU 53ish IMO.

CoinHunter4

@TomB said:
I think your white balance is off, which will affect the guessed grades. Regardless, I see the coin as going from EF45 through AU50.

The better question, in my opinion, is why would you want to sink $40-$50 into grading a coin that is common and worth $125-$175?

Possibly because I got it for a pretty decent price--and I never said for sure that I was going to submit it.

CoinHunter4

I'll update this thread with some better pictures soon (prob. sometime tomorrow). I was trying a new setup for those photos and I guess they didn't come out the greatest

Project Numismatics

AU details - appears cleaned to me.

Cougar1978

XF 40

erwindoc

Initial impression was AU50

MS66

@TomB said:
I think your white balance is off, which will affect the guessed grades. Regardless, I see the coin as going from EF45 through AU50.

The better question, in my opinion, is why would you want to sink $40-$50 into grading a coin that is common and worth $125-$175?

You can get $175 for a cleaned, flat XF '99 Morgan? I really need to pay more attention.

LanceNewmanOCC

@TomB said:
I think your white balance is off, which will affect the guessed grades. Regardless, I see the coin as going from EF45 through AU50.

The better question, in my opinion, is why would you want to sink $40-$50 into grading a coin that is common and worth $125-$175?

icsoccer

XF Details

sweetwilliet

I was wavering between xf45 and au50, I’ll go au50 details and a likely prior cleaning.

CoinHunter4

Better pictures:

CoinHunter4

CoinHunter4

Smudge

40

BillJones

AU-50 at best. It might go a little lower, like EF-45, because of the stain on the reverse. It's not worth the slab fee.

CoinHunter4

@BillJones said:
AU-50 at best. It might go a little lower, like EF-45, because of the stain on the reverse. It's not worth the slab fee.

I believe that is actually a lamination...

blitzdude

XF details, RGDS!

DollarAfterDollar

Yeah, several more scratches present in the latest pictures. I'm still at AU 50 now.

nwcoast

The new photos are much better and show more luster.
I’m in the AU camp now.