Interesting Surfaces on This 1883-P Morgan Dollar A Bad Case of Acne! - Large Pictures

poorguy

Go ahead and assign a grade if you like. At first glance, and without a loupe, she looks fine.











But look a little closer. There appears to be tiny little raised pimples on the raised portions of the central areas of both sides of the coin. Sorry about the load time. What are your thoughts about this coin? At first glance, I thought someone may have tried to clean up the cheek until I noticed that the bumps are raised and not incuse and they don't appear in the contact mark in the hair over the ear. It appears like it might be rusted dies but this is pretty severe. What do you think? A lame artificial frosting attempt? A botched attempt to clean up the high points? Or simply heavily rusted dies?

rkfish

Looks like rusted dies to me and this particular date is noted for having a "sandblasted" look......

DickyBetz

Thats pretty cool. Looks like a nice 66 to me.

Cladiator

Put me in the rusty die crowd.

VamGuy

<< <i>Looks like rusted dies to me and this particular date is noted for having a "sandblasted" look...... >>

Leroy Van Allen specifically mentions this in the VAM encyclopedia when he wrote "Some specimens exhibit a surface roughness on the devices which are fine raised dots due to rusted dies."

rhedden

I think I used to own an 1883-P from the same roll/bag. Rust & toning were identical.

BECOKA

Cool, I just learned something new.

Myqqy

My guess was rusted dies, and a grade of 64 or shot 65....