Latest Addition To My Ag-3 CC Collection

Nice looking, original coin. Has that original grey color.
Wonder how many saloons she's seen?

hmm nice coin, love to see these coins actually were used for once makes you wonder who actually had it/held it etc if that coin could only talk!

Good luck finding the 1885 CC Morgan.... its more rare in AG-3 than MS and will cost about the same.

Vermontensium, is there something you're not telling us....

This coin has character. Really nice. It could have been a pocket piece also.

No denticles left on either rim should be an automatic AG-3
(some denticles are still on the Photograde G-4 coin),
also wear on tips of letters "E P" on obverse, "R I C A" and "A R".

Check out this 1890-CC's reverse.
It's a miracle. Denticles worn away evenly, but no tips of any letters worn off.
This one, I could see being given a pass to G-4 (or at least a CAC sticker!)
(which is why I bought another AG-3 1890-CC as a downgrade. )

Here's my 1882-CC, also far rarer than in AG-3 grade than MS.




Total 1882-CC Morgan dollar mintage: 1,133,000
Total Uncirculated 1882-CC Morgans in the GSA inventory (1972): 605,029

Right there, 53.4% of the total 1882-CC Morgan mintage never entered circulation,
and some may have been melted down for the Pittman Act in 1918.

So, out of the 527,971 (or less!) 1882-CC Morgans that did get into circulation,
now find one that wore all the way down to AG-3 before someone finally decided to save it.

When we get to the 1885-CC Morgan, a whopping 148,285 of them were
Uncirculated in GSA's inventory, out of the 228,000 total mintage.
65% of the 1885-CC Morgans ever minted never entered circulation!