Learning about Morgans and Grading and Cleaning and so on...

wvinchic

Hi! I just purchased some Morgans today for super cheap. They looked kinda funny to me, but not knowing all the ins and outs, I went a head and purchased them. As you can tell, I am a newbie

Anyway, what caused this orange peely look on the surface of the coin? If the whole thing was like that, I'd assume it had been cleaned. But if you look at the fields as they get closer to the middle of the coin, the orange peely look goes away. Like i said, I am new at coin collecting and I am trying to soak in all of the information I can.


Thanks!



Stacy

ziggy29

Looks like die erosion to me.

ddbird

Have a pic. of the full coin? Welcome too!

nwcs

The orange peel look is usually caused by die deterioration after it's struck a lot of coins. Sometimes people have applied that terminology to the surfaces created with rusted dies. One video you might really benefit from, one which a lot of us have seen, is the How To Grade US Coins video that the ANA sells. It's very helpful in getting a jump start into grading and they go into some of the popular series. And the one word of advice I tell everyone is to look at as many coins as you can before you buy. The best thing is to look around. You'll learn a lot that way.

DUIGUY

Welcome to the boards!! A newbie myself, so all I can tell you is to do a search using the word orange.
You will find a lot of info.

wvinchic

Here are the scans of the full coin. I will try to take pics of the coins later this evening. My daughters are calling for me!





Thanks!


Stacy

coinguy1

Welcome to the forum Stacy.

The coin looks to have been cleaned, though it's possible that it has merely been lightly circulated and the images are throwing me off.

ziggy29

The coin appears to have been cleaned. However, the "orange peely" appearance you mentioned to open this thread is not related to the cleaning. It appears to be as-struck die erosion/deterioration, occurring as a die strikes many coins just as Neil mentioned.