End roll toned 1888 Morgan Dollar - is it real, or did I get screwed?
Russ
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These threads are so much fun. 
What do you guys think?
Russ, NCNE
What do you guys think?
Russ, NCNE
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K S
<< <i>mkt-acceptable, but another coin i would pay no significant premium on.
K S >>
That works out well, since I wasn't planning on selling it to you.
Russ, NCNE
Isn,t 1888 a better date toned.
Looks like a clown thru up on that coin(I mean that in a good way).
Rainbow Stars
CG
I like it, and think it's worthy of nice premium....
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depends on how much it cost
Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry
<< <i>I agree with toned dollars.
Ditto
Russ - you seem to be getting "screwed" regularly lately
“It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.” Mark Twain
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These coins are "pretty," and if you want to collect pretty coins, you can keep buying raw coins with pretty colors. However, anyone who buys these coins raw is asking to get screwed sooner or later. I certainly hope you are paying cheap prices for them. If you are spending serious premiums, then I think you are making a big mistake. In fact, I think any collector who spends a lot on coins (particularly uncirculated coins, and coins that carry premiums due to appearance or alleged grade), and who buys either raw coins or those in completely untrustworthy or fraudulent holders, is the proverbial fool from whose money he is soon parted.
As I look at toned Morgans on Ebay, I am particularly appalled at the large number of grotesquely overgraded and overpriced coins showing up lately in "NTC" holders. Please, people, unless you have been at this many years, and have SOLD a substantial percentage of the coins that you have ever bought, please stay away from anything other than NGC and PCGS certified coins. You are just asking to be raped, robbed and plundered. Until you have tried to SELL part of your collection, you have no idea how worthless and unmarketable many of these acquisitions are.
Now, of course, this does not apply to collectors building sets of circulated coins, modestly priced coins, etc, wherein the plastic gives you no value added. And there is the occasional coin, and the occasional smart buyer (perhaps Russ?) who picks up legitimate and attractive coins cheaply and later gets them into PCGS or NGC holders to ensure their merchantability. But this is a game best avoided ... so either buy cheap coins (definition: you are spending an amount of money that you can afford to THROW AWAY and never see again), or buy legitimate certified coins (PCGS and NGC are the only legitimate grading services in my opinion, with the occasional exception in an ANACS or ICG holder).
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Best,
Sunnywood
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<< <i>there seems to be just a smigeon of trouble maker lurking in you somewhere >>
Who, me?
Russ, NCNE
Sunnywood, Piranhas are freshwater fish.
From the threads and posts by Russ that i've read, I think he's able to safely swim thru that "sea" of piranhas, with the exception of Kennedys of course. He doesn't seem to know didly squat about them - keeps buying them thinking they're rare
“It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.” Mark Twain
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