OK, let’s see your 1893-S Morgan Dollar

Dave99B

I’ve never really been a huge fan of many of the popular U.S. ‘key dates’, i.e. 16-D Mercs, 1909-S VDB cents, etc. Nothing wrong with these coins at all, but I’ve never had a burning desire to own one.

That said, the one key date coin I’d love to own is the 1893-S Morgan dollar. This one has always fascinated me. I’ll be picking one up as some point, probably VG8 or less. I’ve seen a few super original PCGS examples at shows that I almost pulled the trigger on. There’s just a cool factor about these workhorses, even though I’ve never been a serious dollar collector.

If you have one, please post it. I’d love to see them!

Dave

TheGoonies1985

I use to own one in PCGS G-06 but sold it years ago.

AUandAG

I too have had only one. PCGS graded VF35. Thought more would come along so sold....haven't had a chance ever again!
bob

vulcanize

Here's my AG3

Vetter

Mine.

edwardjulio

PCGS 10

124Spider

By far, the most expensive coin in my collections; I waited a long time to get it, and I still cannot believe I have one!

Cladiator

This was a bucket list coin for me for a long long time. It's low grade and pales in comparison to others on the forum but to me, IMHO, she's perfect. I feel privileged to still claim custodianship of it.

humanssuck

Im still looking for a nice AU that i like, until then, I've got this as its placeholder.

braddick

Here's mine:

Barberian

@Cladiator That VG10 is a gem for the grade. It's a nice thing to have a key date coin that looks great. The first coin a collector checks out blows them away. Nice find!

FredS

@braddick

hummingbird_coins

@vulcanize said:
Here's my AG3

Wow! That's about as original as it gets for the grade! To me, there's something indescribably attractive about a heavily worn Morgan dollar with "original" surfaces, since so many survivors in the series are in Mint State.

HoledandCreative

vulcanize

@hummingbird_coins said:
Wow! That's about as original as it gets for the grade! To me, there's something indescribably attractive about a heavily worn Morgan dollar with "original" surfaces, since so many survivors in the series are in Mint State.

Thank you.
I would imagine it to have been in regular use at some casino regardless of the label Las Vegas Vault Collection which seems to be some sort of dubious marketing.ploy.

braddick

@vulcanize said:

@hummingbird_coins said:
Wow! That's about as original as it gets for the grade! To me, there's something indescribably attractive about a heavily worn Morgan dollar with "original" surfaces, since so many survivors in the series are in Mint State.

Thank you.
I would imagine it to have been in regular use at some casino regardless of the label Las Vegas Vault Collection which seems to be some sort of dubious marketing.ploy.

It doesn't have the appearance of a casino slot machine dollar though.
Edited to add:
The surfaces are original and the patina natural without the typical slide markings and digs/dings and shininess of a slot coin.

hummingbird_coins

@braddick said:

@vulcanize said:

@hummingbird_coins said:
Wow! That's about as original as it gets for the grade! To me, there's something indescribably attractive about a heavily worn Morgan dollar with "original" surfaces, since so many survivors in the series are in Mint State.

Thank you.
I would imagine it to have been in regular use at some casino regardless of the label Las Vegas Vault Collection which seems to be some sort of dubious marketing.ploy.

It doesn't have the appearance of a casino slot machine dollar though.
Edited to add:
The surfaces are original and the patina natural without the typical slide markings and digs/dings and shininess of a slot coin.

I'm sure there were other games at casinos that used silver dollars besides slot machines. It's also possible that it never entered a casino at all, and just happened to end up at a Las Vegas bank when they were being put in the vault.

LeeBone

..

Better hurry

coastaljerseyguy

From an NGC G4 holder, now in Dansco. Don't think I photo'ed in slab as I was so excited getting coin I wanted that I couldn't wait to fill that last hole in the album. Kept the label. Looks original, nice brown color and no distracting hits. Goes well with the other 93 set in album.

golden

I heard several years ago that one guy had accumulated over 600 1893-S Morgan Dollars.

CRHer700

I have read that most of the surviving mintage are VF. Anyone have any thoughts on why that might be?

Dave99B

@Cladiator said:
This was a bucket list coin for me for a long long time. It's low grade and pales in comparison to others on the forum but to me, IMHO, she's perfect. I feel privileged to still claim custodianship of it.

Great example! This is exactly the circulated look I'll be hunting for ... in a slightly lower grade.

Dave

humanssuck

@CRHer700 said:
I have read that most of the surviving mintage are VF. Anyone have any thoughts on why that might be?

I dont see that supported in the data published for the population reports.
Looking at PCGS pop reports, the three grades with the highest pops are G6, VG8 & VG10. What's the source of this claim?

M4Madness

@Cladiator said:
This was a bucket list coin for me for a long long time. It's low grade and pales in comparison to others on the forum but to me, IMHO, she's perfect. I feel privileged to still claim custodianship of it.

I, myself, love the color. I've had a handful of raw common-date Morgans that had the same look, and I'm a fan.

After viewing this thread, I started looking around to see what's out there for sale, and saw a very nice F12 CAC specimen. Upon zooming in on the obverse photo, I saw a fingerprint. I don't know if if I could live with that or not. Lol!

M4Madness

Sorry for the doubletap.

CRHer700

@humanssuck said:

@CRHer700 said:
I have read that most of the surviving mintage are VF. Anyone have any thoughts on why that might be?

I dont see that supported in the data published for the population reports.
Looking at PCGS pop reports, the three grades with the highest pops are G6, VG8 & VG10. What's the source of this claim?

Here's where I read it. I wanted proof or a rebuttal of the statement that I circled.


Sorry for bad pictures.

humanssuck

@CRHer700 said:

@humanssuck said:

@CRHer700 said:
I have read that most of the surviving mintage are VF. Anyone have any thoughts on why that might be?

I dont see that supported in the data published for the population reports.
Looking at PCGS pop reports, the three grades with the highest pops are G6, VG8 & VG10. What's the source of this claim?

Here's where I read it. I wanted proof or a rebuttal of the statement that I circled.


Sorry for bad pictures.

I would argue with the language used since i would interpret "the majority of known pieces" to mean more than 50% of the known pieces. However, if you consider the PCGS + NGC pops combined to be representative of the survivors, coins in the 4 VF grades combined are the largest group by a slight margin.

124Spider

@golden said:
I heard several years ago that one guy had accumulated over 600 1893-S Morgan Dollars.

Obsessions are strange....

oih82w8

Just for giggles...my half dollar & dollar page from 7070 of fakes, including my 1893-S Morgan

CRHer700

@oih82w8 said:
Just for giggles...my half dollar & dollar page from 7070 of fakes, including my 1893-S Morgan

Were all of these attempts to get you to buy them? Or did you find them incidentally?

oih82w8

@CRHer700 These, and the other coin pages in my 7070, were bought intentionally to pass around and show the different types of U.S. coins. My real ones stay put away.

LeeBone

Here is a full slab pic of my 93-S I posted earlier taken with my amateur photo skills.
Shows it in a slightly different way.

Maybe someday @Cladiator will consider letting his go to join mine to make a great original pair.
Truly an outstanding VG10 example