Critique the Grade®

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• edix2001 Posts: 3,388 ✭

  September 21, 2008 1:45PM

  woof

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 21, 2008 1:46PM

  I would have bought that in a second flat... that's a great looking Morgan!

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• ChrisRx Posts: 5,619 ✭✭✭✭

  September 21, 2008 1:49PM

  Before looking at the grade my first thought was MS63 so it seems I was close.

  

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• coinsarefun Posts: 21,760 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 21, 2008 1:50PM

  Beautiful coin and worthy of an upgrade!
  
  
  
  
  
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• cheezhed Posts: 6,013 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 21, 2008 1:51PM

  I just got this one back from PCGS freshly graded.

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• sumdunce Posts: 1,247 ✭✭✭✭

  September 21, 2008 1:53PM

  Seems undergraded to me. I was thinking 64 when I first looked. No major contact marks and the cheek and neck look clean.
  
  
  
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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 21, 2008 1:55PM

  I was thinking MS64 too based on the Obverse... like the natural toning so much more then all the flamboyant ones on the market.

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• cheezhed Posts: 6,013 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 21, 2008 1:58PM

  The strike is kind of on the weak side, I'm thinking that detracted from the grade.

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 21, 2008 2:00PM

  
  
  << <i>The strike is kind of on the weak side, I'm thinking that detracted from the grade. >>
  
  
  
  Noticed that on the reverse... still a really nice 62, as there's a lot of crap at that level.

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• lordmarcovan Posts: 43,895 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 21, 2008 2:04PM

  I was thinking 58 on that, but I just gave somebody two Morgans I had graded AU55 and AU58 and he sent them off and they both came back 63s. So obviously I have something to learn about rub versus strike characteristics on Morgan dollars.
  
  Eye appeal? I would say that coin is perfectly decent, but not something that would make me howl at the moon, personally. It's not bad.
  
  But once again, Morgans have never been my specialty, and I seldom specialize in much of anything.

  
  
  

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• cheezhed Posts: 6,013 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 21, 2008 2:07PM

  
  
  << <i>I just gave somebody two Morgans I had graded AU55 and AU58 >>
  
  
  Got any more?

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• lordmarcovan Posts: 43,895 ✭✭✭✭✭

  September 21, 2008 2:26PM

  Yes, as a matter o' fact.
  
  Maybe I'd better look at 'em again, huh?

  
  
  

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• Tyler1924S Posts: 1,328

  September 21, 2008 2:55PM

  It has to be the hit at the bridge of the nose. Still, I'd call it 64. I also like the toning.

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