Recent PCGS graded Details Morgan: Indeed Scratched or Tooled or Mint Error?
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The owner says some experienced collectors/dealers advised him that the reverse eagle beak area
abnormality was created at the mint and why it was submitted. Any opinions or shared knowledge welcome and appreciated. 
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The owner's collectors/dealers are less experienced than they claim to be.
I would advise the owner against listening to any advice from those "experts" who encouraged him to submit this. The coin is damaged, maybe intentionally maybe not, but damaged none the less.
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Looks like a severe scratch one-hundred times out of one-hundred.
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Pretty deep scratch, post mint damage.
No question it's a scratch from the photo.
I agree with the previous comments. The coin has been damaged post-mint (aka post-mint damage). It is a deep scratch.
It is the Ultra Rare Spitting Eagle 1890 S Morgan dollar! JUST KIDDING! It is a scratch.
Let's suppose that our hosts and everyone who has posted on this thread are wrong, an this is indeed a genuine mint error.
What on earth does the owner think it would be worth as a genuine error?
Scratch or gouge. Someone's attempt to make it appear a novelty like effect. Instead of a 3 legged Buffalo we have the extended beak or walrus tusk variety.
Still, the scratch is not without interest.
1) The scratch was made directly down onto the coin, because the displaced metal was moved evenly to both sides. If it has been cut at an angle to the coin, one side would be pushed up more than another.
2) This was not done by any collector. The scratch is well worn, so it was circulating and remained in circulation for quite some time afterwards.
3) It’s a bit puzzling for a scratch. It only touches the field, in spite of being bounded by devices on both ends. If something were dragged across the coin, then it would contact the high points first, and touch the recessed field lightly, if at all. The scratch is so deep, but so limited in scope, that the damage had to come from above.
4) I could be wrong. Maybe the scratch just wore off the eagle’s breast, but I don’t see any sign of that. The shape of the lower end of the scratch comes to a point, like a knife blade does.
I can see this on the table in a saloon poker game, and an angry player stabbing it with his knife to make a point! The winner, or survivor, took it to spend another day.
At least, that’s how I would write it!
Ouch!
The drooling hung over eagle. 😆
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A scratch by any other name is still a scratch. Who would encourage anyone to submit this for grading? That’s just ridiculous and a huge waste of time and money. The problem is: first read and learn what an error is. Identify how this might occur and familiarize yourself other similar examples. If there’s no others known, than it usually is PMD. Then the submitter should ask for his money back from those that encouraged him to have this coin graded.
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