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Hmmmm....not sure about the frosting on these Morgans!
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I was perusing ebay checking out 1879-S Morgans for my grading set and ran across this raw coin:
Didn't really like the look of it so checked the sellers other items...interesting selection of frosted Morgans! Looks artificial to me...thoughts? Curious from a learning standpoint really, I could very well be wrong.
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IMO it's just bad photo messing .. overly saturated and/or too much contrast tweaking.
However they're all raw, too, so...
someone quite literally over saturated a black and white edited photo. Stay away.
It does say that it is 'absolutely a museum masterpiece'.
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I enlarged that photo, think I sprained my optic nerves looking at it.
Looked normal when viewed with sunglasses on.
Looks like wholesaledmpls has a new name
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I dunno - it's so blinding it's hard to see that it is a coin.
I agree, juiced up photos.
However, they can look like that. Click on my picture. No messing with contrast, it looks like that.
Not exactly. It's a meusum [sic] masterpiece.
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I can't remember if it was on this forum or on another one, but somebody had purchased one of these morgan dollars off eBay and posted their own pictures when they got the coin in hand.
I thought the same thing and was sure thats who this thread was going to be about
Run. Run. Run.
This marketing approach goes back to at least the 1980s.... selling "Gem BU" "ultra DMPL" dollars that aren't gem BU (MS65) and will never grade DMPL either. If you want real DMPL Morgans, I would suggest buying coins in PCGS holders that says "DMPL" on them. There's some simple advice that anyone who's interested in DMPL Morgans can take to the bank.
The sad fact is.... It will sell.... and someone will be disappointed/ripped off.... maybe quit the hobby... probably not, but will certainly be bitter for a while... Cheers, RickO
Avoid. Too overexposed and too much reflection to actually see the cheeks.
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Does anyone have pics of one of those so-called "California" Morgan dollars from the 70s I think that had painted frost. I've heard about them but have never seen one.
its a meusum master piece and thy are saying not to send it in for grading cause they wont grade good deals or to the sorts. ill pass
"truth in advertising" .... unless your a scuz selling coins on the ebay
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I owned two of them in the 1990s - inadvertently. They were dated 1880-s and 1881-s. I bought them in the local brick & mortar shop. They fooled the dealers, and they fooled me at the time. One day, I was looking at the 1881-S, and I noticed there was a small speck of "frosting" in the field behind Ms. Liberty's cap. Uh-oh! It was a greasy substance that came off easily with my finger nail. I took them back to the shop, and they rinsed off the rest of the fake frosting with some sort of solvent, revealing heavily bagmarked, semi-PL coins with no cameo effect. The fake frosting not only enhances the DMPL appearance, but it covers up bagmarks wonderfully. Money cheerfully refunded. That's what I get for buying "DMPL" dollars that were not housed in PCGS holders.
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Saved these pictures from an eBay listing.
Wow. Thanks. I noticed the fakery in an instance. But I'm a VAMmer so...
I can see how that can fool non Morgan guys though. Those can be sold as DCAM proofs to the unknowing!