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DPL vs. DMPL

MeltdownMeltdown Posts: 8,983 ✭✭✭✭✭
First of all I'd like to thank LRCTom for this gorgeous DPL Morgan. I saw it and had to have it... image
Tom was gracious enough to hold it for me while I gathered up some disposable income.
For a guy like me with a limited coin budget, it was very much appreciated.
My question is...(maybe an obvious answer) Is there a difference between the DPL designation and DMPL given by NGC?
This is an older NGC slab and I thought maybe they changed the way they wrote the designation from DPL to DMPL.
I think it's stunning and very PQ for the 63 grade.
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  • MikeInFLMikeInFL Posts: 10,188 ✭✭✭✭
    While I suspect the angled photos are hiding a few hairlines, I gotta tell you...that looks awful nice for a 63.

    Congrats!
    Collector of Large Cents, US Type, and modern pocket change.
  • MeltdownMeltdown Posts: 8,983 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I can't see hairlines on it at all in person.
    I wasn't trying to be deceptive with the angle at all but it does tend to show off the frost
    pretty well.
  • Nice one! Looks like it is really frosty, I like that.

    DPL is just NGC's term for DMPL. People will argue about differences between different services standards but the idea is the same. They are the designation for the frostiest devices with the deepest mirror like fields.
  • richardshipprichardshipp Posts: 5,647 ✭✭✭
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  • That is a great coin. Looks undergraded to me.
  • SeattleSlammerSeattleSlammer Posts: 10,049 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yes, there is a difference.
    NGC and DPL requires less depth of mirrors than PCGS and DMPL.
    PCGS has the strictest requirements for DMPL/DPL of any grading service. Currently I believe that it's 7-8 inches deep, while I've seen many NGC DPL coins that are at best 4-5 inches.
    Many NGC DPL coins wouldn't make DMPL at PCGS.
    Your example however I believe would easily cross to DMPL at PCGS....oibviously very deep mirrors....sweet frost and rim tone, too! image (...tone likely acquired while in that old NGC slab)
    As for hairlines; generally those wouldn't be hairlines but die polish lines. And at least from those photos I don't see any.



  • Seattle Slammer summed it up nicely.

    Man, that is a gorgeous undergraded coin, too! I would be very surprised if it didn't cross to PCGS MS64DMPL.

    Congratulations on aquiring a winner like that while on a tight budget---I know exactly how that goes.
    "Gem EOR toners are tangible evidence that the Eighth Dimension does indeed exist."
    ---Ambrose Bierce, while attending a Heritage Auction at the 1907 Long Beach show
  • joecopperjoecopper Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭
    Nice coin - seen lots of Morgans graded higher that do not match up to this one.
  • al410al410 Posts: 2,402 ✭✭✭✭
    Stunning Frost and Mirrors! I have looked at alot of these and that is a beauty, as far as undergraded I don't know as there are a few marks that I can't tell if are on holder or coin, BUT no matter what it is a BEAUTY.
    AL
  • MeltdownMeltdown Posts: 8,983 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Thanks for the kind words guys.
    Like I said, the minute I saw it, I knew it was a keeper.

  • blu62vetteblu62vette Posts: 11,943 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yep that falls in the keeper category, very nice!
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