This coin fits the deffinition of eye appeal......

relicsncoins

This is the coin that fills my Morgan slot in my Anacs Certificate Type Set. The coin is a common date, but is just a pleasure to view. It has relatively mark free surfaces, supberb luster and very nice rim toning. Anacs graded the coin 65/63, but I can't imagine the coin would grade below 65. What say you?

Raybo

I'm not a big Morgan fan........................but I like it!

tjc2120

I agree, fantastic eye appeal.

Off topic a little but I wish TPGs offered a grade/opinon on genuineness/atribution without the slab. They could provide a picture and a certificate. It would never work for resale but I have pieces for which I would like a grade opinion or confirmation of genuineness or atribution but do not want slabbed.

Have they or would they ever do this?

SamByrd

nor am I a big Morgan fan, That coin though ROCKS. Color is superb , surfaces pristine as well very clean obverse. solid 65 but way PQ in my book.

relicsncoins

I think the little die chip in the wing is a certain Vam as well, I wan't to say 1B, but might be off.

JJ

FatMan

Several years back I coined the phrase "real deal appeal™". You image certainly portrays a coin fitting the designation.

BillJones

Going by the picture, I'd say that the coin probably is an MS-65, maybe 66, but getting the grade on an 1881-S is often a crap shoot. The trouble is the grading services have graded many thousands of these coins. It's also well known that this date is almost always well struck, and there are many nice examples. Sometimes if the coins are bulk graded the services don't spend a lot of time agonizing over the grades. Sometimes it seems like the services are looking at bell curve for grading these coins.

The short answer is you could send this in for grading and have it come back in an MS-64 holder. I’m not saying that’s a for sure thing, but it’s not beyond the realm of possibility. It could also pull an MS-66.

Steve27

Nice, and appears to be a 65. I wonder what they didn't like about the reverse.

BillJones

<< <i>I wonder what they didn't like about the reverse. >>



That's a good question. There were periods when ANACS paper grading got really tight, and other times it was lose. This coin must not have been sold by a dealer in the old days for a couple of reasons.

First the dealers often crossed out the grading date to avoid the questions about the "new" and "old" ANACS papers. ANACS got really lose for a while, and then they made a big announcement that they were tightening their grades. It was the beginning of then for the service.

Second, a lot of dealers I knew back then would have ripped the certificate in half and thrown it away when they saw the MS-63 grade associated with a coin that looked like this one.