Here Is A Nice 900 Silver 1878 Morgan Dollar I Brought Today

Let me turn the tables in the spirit of sharing.
If I came to the United Kingdom and asked you to show me about some of the finer antique shops, we might come to the agreement that an 1878 piece of furniture showing a little honest wear was an attractive purchase.
And as we load it into my van I remark, "I can hardly wait to take this home where I can sand it down and refinish it."
There are times and ways to conserve our history, some are good, some are not.
Smart of you to ask first.
When in doubt, wait and research.
Now if you want to get some real mileage (or I suppose in UK Kilometerage,) out of this learning exercise, brush up on your camera skills and determine the VAM.
Super Dave and others on the coin photography will show you how to make the most of the equipment you already own - and we pride ourselves at being tighter than Scots. Many a photo booth are built on a kitchen table.
And research the VAM. A VAM is not so much the coin, as it is the catalogue number of the dies and die stages used to make each Morgan and Peace dollar. An acronym from the names of the pioneers Van Allen and Mallis.
The 1878-S has about 225 varieties. Many very interesting. A few quite valuable. For a dive into the deep end of the pool, where no one has ever drowned, take a look at VAMworld.com.
Oh, 1967 Norton Atlas is still my favorite bike.
Good luck.

It's a very nice Morgan!

Thanks Solotime! I do feel proud to own it I'm no expert at grading but for its age I would say its in very fine grade. been well loked after.

Yes justin I make you right the coins I polished are rubbish grade to be honest but I'm sure by janurary 2014 I can make my money back or maybe more in scrap value. from now on I will only buy top grade coins and not polish them is that ok with you? Or would you like to see me hang for polishing a coin ?

We do not want to hang for you to polish coin. To be clear, NEVER polish or clean coins. Rare circumstances warrant it IF you know what you are doing. So, unless you enjoy devaluing them, never ever ever clean coins. Tell everyone you know that has an interest in coins the same. U.S, British, Mexican, tokens, silver, aluminum, copper, steel........ doesn't matter. Never clean. Never!

This has been a public service announcement for the prevention of perfectly good coins being ruined by the millions from polishing/cleaning. We now return to your regularly scheduled programming.

No, of course I don't want you hung for cleaning coins. I never condemned you or what you were doing in any way and I was just offering an honest suggestion that would be cheaper for you than buying uncleaned/unaltered/undamaged coins and polishing them and would also save original coins from being cleaned.no need to get offended friend. in response to you saying they were all rubbish grade anyway to me the grade doesn't matter that much, it's the history being destroyed/altered. I'm glad you've decided to not clean any coins anymore. thank you. silver going up or down is hard to predict, ith all due respect I'm not as sure as you are the price is going to increase enough to make the coins you've already cleaned on other threads bullion value to equal or exceed the numistatic value destroyed when you cleaned them.

I have not tried that yet.

This is good advice, especially if you feel that you'll get the most enjoyment out of polishing your coins. There are plenty of silver coins available where the damage has already been done.