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So THAT'S what a true to life PCGS PO01 Morgan looks like!

braddickbraddick Posts: 23,965 ✭✭✭✭✭
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For your amusement and pleasure I bring to you:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1383764743

Please, enjoy.

peacockcoins

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  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    Is this a guess the grade thread? I say 66 shot 7.... Looks good to me. Good buy!
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • BladeBlade Posts: 1,744 ✭
    Flat as a pancake. I have no idea how you get a date off of that. Why are you selling it? Do you have another PO01 in your set?
    Tom

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    Current focus 1855 date type set
  • keithdagenkeithdagen Posts: 2,025 ✭
    Did you actually find a downgrade to this piece???
    Keith ™

  • braddickbraddick Posts: 23,965 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Flat as a pancake. I have no idea how you get a date off of that. Why are you selling it? Do you have another PO01 in your set? >>


    Yes, Keith and Blade, I do have another lined up that will possibly go PO01 (and it's MintMarked- kind of cooler).

    If it comes back PCGS FA02 I'll scream the injustices right here on this forum. . .

    PS: This one probably WON'T sell though. image

    peacockcoins

  • MAULUMALLMAULUMALL Posts: 711 ✭
    and it is not an ACG MintState coin...
    HMMMMMMMMM.....................
  • Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
    Cool! Since I'm a Morgan collector that would look good next to my DMPLs and my Liberian Morgan looking things. However that dig in the field really bothers me and I don't buy problem coins. Let me think about it.
    Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.
  • ClankeyeClankeye Posts: 3,928 ✭
    Braddick--
    Is the downgrade one of the coins you are planning to use the PCGS walk-through on?
    Brevity is the soul of wit. --William Shakespeare
  • braddickbraddick Posts: 23,965 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I have five coins lined up for walk-through on Thursday and this second Morgan is one of them.
    It is a real charmer. The reverse shows the faded remains of an " S " mintmark and the obverse has about half of the outline of the portrait with a ghost of a date- last two digits only.
    Otherwise SMOOTH with hard gray surfaces and NO DIG!- as Dog97 pointed out.

    What was PCGS thinking? Grading a problem coin! Of course this was back in their Green Insert (read: liberal) days, it probably wouldn't work today. image

    peacockcoins

  • Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
    If it's not a dig then what is it? Talk to me! Like I said I'm thinking. I see it's in a slab fron PCGS's generous years. Can you tell me it won't make F-2 if I crack it? Talk to me!
    Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.
  • nwcsnwcs Posts: 13,386 ✭✭✭
    I wonder what a PCGS grader thinks when they see braddick coins go through?
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  • tjkilliantjkillian Posts: 5,578 ✭✭✭
    I'm putting together a grading set of Morgan dollars. Since the strike/luster/etc are functions of the date and mint, I've choosen the 1879-S Morgan for the mint state coins, but for the lower grades, that does not matter. I need a coin just like this for my grading set. If anyone else has a circulated PCGS Morgan dollar that is cheap, please let me know.

    Cool coin, a low end PO-01

    Tom
    Tom

  • clw54clw54 Posts: 3,815 ✭✭✭
    Why wasn't it bodybagged for the dig?
  • lsicalsica Posts: 1,580 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I have no idea how you get a date off of that. >>



    Yeah, how do you get a date and MM off of that? Can you actually see them on the actual coin?

    Philately will get you nowhere....
  • RussRuss Posts: 48,514 ✭✭✭
    Man, you guys are merciless.image

    Russ, NCNE
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  • lsicalsica Posts: 1,580 ✭✭✭✭
    And 36 bux still hasn't met reserve? Jeez, you really don't want to give that piece up, do you? image
    Philately will get you nowhere....
  • braddickbraddick Posts: 23,965 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I have no idea how you get a date off of that. >>

    Yeah, how do you get a date and MM off of that? Can you actually see them on the actual coin? >>



    The date is a ghost. You have to tilt the coin to see a hint of it. PCGS spent a little more that five seconds doing so...
    clw54 & Dog97- it isn't so much a "dig" as it is a 'slight handling mark' so as to distinguish this fine example from others in the same grade (well, it works when Heritage writes that up in their auction cataloges).

    peacockcoins

  • ursabearursabear Posts: 1,888
    I hit a bid on it, but didn't eclipse Russ image

    I think that over the past months I've learned to appreciate Braddick's coins and ideas quite a bit. To own a Braddick piece is to own history (sort of like a modern Farouk?)

    I'll try the next one that comes along. Now if PCGS will put "The Braddick Collection" in the slab, I'd pay much more for it (seriously!)


  • dorkkarldorkkarl Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭
    doesnt pcgs ALWAYS undergrade coins??? so that means it's really a FR-2 to AG-3!

    K S
  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 33,964 ✭✭✭✭✭
    WOW! It's a beautyimageimage

    Still it's got the dig in front of Ms. Liberty's nose that keeps it from being quite perfect.

    I wonder what the reserve on this pocket piece is? It cost $15 to get it into a hoder, probably $5 to buy it and many hours of searching.
    Retired dealer and avid collector of U.S. type coins, 19th century presidential campaign medalets and selected medals. In recent years I have been working on a set of British coins - at least one coin from each king or queen who issued pieces that are collectible. I am also collecting at least one coin for each Roman emperor from Julius Caesar to ... ?
  • Dog97Dog97 Posts: 7,874 ✭✭✭
    I dunno but I just bid $44 and Russ's proxy held strong.
    Change that we can believe in is that change which is 90% silver.
  • clw54clw54 Posts: 3,815 ✭✭✭
    $20 was my limit. I wouldn't be suprised if somebody snipes it at the end.
  • goyankeezgoyankeez Posts: 357
    I have to admit, prior to this Morgan, I have never seen a PCGS PO01 coin. How did that escape the melting pot? Rare indeed. image
    "Buy the coin, not the holder"

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