My contribution to coinguy1s contest

sliderider

A designation added to Morgan dollars. Full feathers. Lots of nice Morgans out there are being held way down in grade due to weak breast feathers on the reverse. I think if they can give high marks to Mercury dimes without full bands or Standing Liberty quartes without full heads, then they should be able to give Morgans high marks even with weak breast feathers. How's that, Mark?

JrGMan2004

I don't know about that... that'd be much harder, as it's a bigger area and would be harder to define than, "a ful complete line straight across," "an earhole must be visible," "6 complete lines without any breaks," "3 line's straight across" etc. etc. do you see my point? While I don't really know about others, a Mercury dime can still have a nice strike, but not be completely struck up on the bands...

sliderider

It would probably throw the whole Morgan market into turmoil, too. Sigh. It would be good for business over at the grading services though. Think of all the resubmissions for a full feather designation!!

JrGMan2004

I think there is just too much detail there for it to be practical... plus, I belive die wear would impact that breast feather detail, where as on like a Merc, or a Jefferson, die wear isn't going to effect it, or at least, won't effect it as much...

cladking

The tough characteristic on the Morgan to find full are the obverse stars. On many dates it's the ones near the date.

haletj

Rather than full feathers, how about a full strike designation. That would work for all coins. It may be hard though to decide what constitutes a full strike for each date mint mark may be different. And do you count die wear as strike? etc...