1878-s Morgan Long Nock??? Whattya think...

lkrarecoins

I was just searching through these completed Ebay auctions and stumbled across this auction.

Can you tell if this coin is a long nock or something else that may be interesting? Someone obviously saw some value in this one.

What say youse? (sorry I was born and raised in Brooklyn NY lol)

longus nockus

DennisH

Sure looks like a long one!

3keepSECRETif2rDEAD

<< <i>Sure looks like a long one! >>





…sorry…had to

Erik

messydesk

Yup. Looks like VAM 26 to me.

LanceNewmanOCC

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what a deal!
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DennisH

Well done Erik!!

lkrarecoins

Thanks all....I couldn't tell from the pics...That's alotta sheckles for a raw specimen that may not even grade

ElKevvo

Hmmm....for us non VAM types could you enlighten us to the identifiers of the variety? Thanks!

K

lkrarecoins

ELKevvo, the 1878-s long nock (B1 reverse) is much scarcer than the more common short nock, especially in higher grades. There are only a smattering of graded examples in MS. On the reverse of the coin, if you look at the arrow shaft, you will see that on most specimens the center nock is flush to the feathers. On Long Nocks (1st pic below), the center nock extends further past the feathers. A short nock is below (2nd pic) for comparison sakes....I hope this helps ;-)

ElKevvo

Perfect explanation and photos...I learned something new today and it is still early Thanks!

K

Nickcap

I don't want to be negative here, but that does not look like a long nock.

when blowing the picture up on my phone, it looks like PMD behind the nock.

Hopefully when you have this in hand, it will be a long nock.

BustHalfBrian

I'm on the fence, but I'm leaning towards yes. Still, I would have never been that amount unless I were confident it was the variety.

LanceNewmanOCC

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you guys are funny. you don't even need to see the reverse to attribute the 78-s v26

unless that obv is shared with a non 78-s
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lkrarecoins

I agree with Nickcap....this is not my coin, but I am not 100% certain it is even a long nock....looks like it can be PMD to me too.

Perhaps there are other diagnostics (MM position, eye gouges, etc) that others see, but I am no guru on these. In fact, I have a handful of
long nocks that I still cannot attribute and I have the Long nock book and everything lol

messydesk

<< <i>I agree with Nickcap....this is not my coin, but I am not 100% certain it is even a long nock....looks like it can be PMD to me too. >>


Look at Liberty's eye. There are some visible die chips and spikes in front of the eye that are die markers for 1878-S VAM 26, which is a long nock variety.

1878-S VAM 26 on VAMWorld

Type2

Good luck hope it works out for you but i dont think so.

BustHalfBrian

So what was the verdict?

LanceNewmanOCC

<< <i>So what was the verdict? >>



no verdict really because it was not questioned by anyone that is into vamming the 78-s longus nockus'.
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