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Grade opinion on 1889-O Morgan...Grade Revealed.

DoubleEagle59DoubleEagle59 Posts: 8,369 ✭✭✭✭✭
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cracked this one out of its plastic tomb....

I think it should have been graded ms63.

What do you think?

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"Gold is money, and nothing else" (JP Morgan, 1912)

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  • nicetoning42107nicetoning42107 Posts: 1,162
    From the images it's looking like a 63/64. Are there hairlines that are not showing up in the image too good? For example, the lighter mark on the middle of the cheek. . .

    Also the luster quality cannot be seen so I'm really just going by contact marks and strike.
    A lie told often enough becomes the truth. ~Vladimir Lenin
  • tightbudgettightbudget Posts: 7,299 ✭✭✭
    It's a liner 63/64. I'd give it a solid 64 if it weren't for the mushy reverse strike.
  • anablepanablep Posts: 5,157 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Nice clean cheek. I'd go 64 on that one.

    I submitted a clean 1889-O and got a 62 on it when it is easily a 64.

    So, you never know...

    Price jumps quite a bit in 64 (nearly $1000 if I'm correct).
    Always looking for attractive rim toned Morgan and Peace dollars in PCGS or (older) ANA/ANACS holders!

    "Bongo hurtles along the rain soaked highway of life on underinflated bald retread tires."


    ~Wayne
  • DoubleEagle59DoubleEagle59 Posts: 8,369 ✭✭✭✭✭
    how about Anacs ms61...that's the grade I got!
    "Gold is money, and nothing else" (JP Morgan, 1912)

    "“Those who sacrifice liberty for security/safety deserve neither.“(Benjamin Franklin)

    "I only golf on days that end in 'Y'" (DE59)
  • sonoranmonsoonsonoranmonsoon Posts: 2,078 ✭✭


    << <i>how about Anacs ms61...that's the grade I got! >>



    Wow! I would not have guessed that low, particularly ANACS. Even with the weak strike, and assuming a flat luster. The marks seem light for the grade. I am a bit late for the guessing part, but was thinking PCGS MS-63 as the worse to expect.
  • sweetwillietsweetwilliet Posts: 2,315 ✭✭✭
    Guessing from the limiting mark on the neck, I'd have said pcgs ms63, with a shot at 64. 61 seems a bit low, unless of course there is something else we can't see in the picture.
    Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
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  • MORGANHUNTER2MORGANHUNTER2 Posts: 4,473 ✭
    I'm surprised you got a 61. From you picture there seems to be signs of circulation, although limited, I see rub in several spots, and a few rim nicks, and a solid hit in the fiels between the E and bridge of Morgans nose- that shows up like wow, but that could be your picture.

    If you send that in to PCGS- you will get an AU55-58 for it.
  • RampageRampage Posts: 9,494 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I think 61 is a fair grade-maybe 62. Do I see parallel lines (perhaps from and album slide) on the cheek? If so, that would knock it down some.

    Otherwise, a very nice coin. I need one such as that for my Morgan album. I just have not found the right one yet.
  • anablepanablep Posts: 5,157 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Mine had "friction" on the cheek and was given the 62 grade.

    Yours should be 63/64 depending on how mushy that strike really is.

    Sorry about the 61. That really surprises me.
    Always looking for attractive rim toned Morgan and Peace dollars in PCGS or (older) ANA/ANACS holders!

    "Bongo hurtles along the rain soaked highway of life on underinflated bald retread tires."


    ~Wayne

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