GSA Morgans

Looks better than MS-60; I think it would grade MS-63 at a TPG. However, I echo other posters and advise against cracking the GSA slab. Buy another raw coin if you must put one in your album and hang on to the GSA coin with its original packaging.

I'm very happy w/ the help I rec'd. in this matter. I've checked FMV & ebay for pricing difference, And there is only a few dollars in difference. This is what led to my question.
The consensus is more than leaning towards leaving it as is. Again Thank You all for your opinions & help with this. I will leave it in the GSA Holder.

Thanks Vinnie, Picked it up for a little less than that.

The GSA Morgans is the one coin I would never ever crack out, I would never even ever send them to PCGS to be graded because they crack them out and place them in their own slab with just a GSA notation on the label. Once a GSA Morgan is out of the OGP GSA plastic its just like every other Morgan of that date

Thanks Everyone

I read in another thread that over 75% (probably more) of the 1884 CC Morgans were placed in GSA Holders...but I am still not going to crack mine out...ANACS MS62 (unattributed VAM-2).

GSA's being the first slabs? As far as I know...I have been wrong before.

I do consider them to be the first slabs. The proof silver Ikes predate them by a year, but those coins are not graded they are just Proof. The GSA coins were separated into CC coins and non-CC coins and then each of those was was further subdivided into circulated and Uncirculated and there was a different type of holder for each one so the holder type tells you what type it was and a very rough "grade"

The 1966 and 1967 Special mint set holders don't qualify because they don't grade, and they are not sealed. The sealed 1968 and on proof sets do not qualify for the same reason as the silver Ikes didn't. No grading just proof. And remember proof is not a grade, it is a method of manufacture.

Actual percentage of 1884CC dollars in the GSA hoard was 84.6% of the entire mintage.Not all went into the hardcase, some went into the "reject group" and were released in the soft pack. Interesting designation, "reject" since that grouping contained major stiking errors, off center stikes and coins with incredible toning. Some of the most sought after coins came from the reject group.