Questions about a 1903 Morgan

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• BAJJERFAN Posts: 31,409 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 4, 2015 2:35PM

  If it's a proof, the denticles wll be a giveaway.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 4, 2015 10:58PM

  Hard to say..... looks dipped and poorly rinsed.....Cheers, RickO

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• silverpop Posts: 6,766 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 4, 2015 11:27PM

  poorly rinsed after a dip

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• ColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 5, 2015 2:02AM

  Not a proof. Look for the "mesa" or "plateau" effect on the lettering and date. Not there. Not proof rims either. No squareness at the bottom of each raised detail. Can a VAM collector say whether of not there is some evidence available if a discrete set of dies for proof Morgans was used later for production strikes? Reverse is not a C-4 (I think). We will hear more of this later today.
  
  Likely polished.
  
  Not only are the tops of the "mesas" sharply flat, but the juncture of the perpendicular edge of each device and the flatness of the fields is also very sharp, Lots different angles of refraction and diffusion of light.
  
  DMPL 03's have a very different look. Compare on HA archives.

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• Wabbit2313 Posts: 7,268 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 5, 2015 2:36AM

  
  I can't make head nor tails about a grade from the images but I can see it is not a proof.

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• PRIZ430 Posts: 306 ✭✭✭

  April 5, 2015 2:48AM

  So then...looking at the denticles... Is this a proof???.... LINKY

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• ColonelJessup Posts: 6,442 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 5, 2015 6:06AM

  Anyone here who hasn't looked at the HA archive photos is wasting a lot of time. Three comparisons (MS DMPL (or PL) vs. low grade, even circ, proofs) and you'll be grooved in for life.

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• blu62vette Posts: 11,952 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 5, 2015 6:28AM

  
  
  << <i>So then...looking at the denticles... Is this a proof???.... LINKY >>
  
  
  
  
  I would think PCGS would have recognized it a proof if it was one and that one looks nothing like a proof to me.
  
  
  
  

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• Wolf359 Posts: 7,663 ✭✭✭

  April 5, 2015 1:10PM

  
  
  << <i>So then...looking at the denticles... Is this a proof???.... LINKY >>
  
  
  
  It's more than denticles, however that coin might indeed be an impaired proof.

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• Christos Posts: 950 ✭

  April 5, 2015 2:02PM

  Am I seeing things wrong or is the bottom smaller reverse image a different coin as it looks like a 78 first die reverse looking at the feather detail by the right wing facing us left wing of eagle at the base of the wing and the body?

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