1884-S Morgan ?

With all due respect, if anyone remotely thinks this coin could be real, I would strongly advise getting out of this hobby else a major financial loss will be the result.

It may not be my place to say this, but we have here a new member who admittedly does not know about these. Nobody likes being fooled, and likes it even less when others are slightly derisive in pointing it out. We've established it's counterfeit, so let's not "pile on" and if we haven't put this person off at this point, perhaps we can be constructive in seeing if there's any remedy to the situation. I'm hoping it was an ebay purchase where buyer protection can be invoked.

Although it is a replica, I like the thing it's photographed on. What is that?

Happy Sunday ! Let me explain what this post was to be about...The other day my son and I decided to go to the flea market shop across the street after school. Conner loves helping mommy with her coins and has developed an interest in coinage. His grandfather "PoetsPennies" is also getting interested in coinage...something they are learning together. Recently, I lost my mother and so we live with grandpa to help him. Conner picked out the "coin" out of a token box and gave it to him. My five year old suggested posting picture online...yes he does have his own computer and loves E-Bay pictures of coins. So, grandpa proudly sat down with his grandson and posted pictures of this "coin." Grandpa never mentioned once that this was a real coin, only asked for information...I purchased this for 1.99 as a token. Thank you to the CCF members who posted positive comments regarding this and giving us the additional information we needed to further research. I can only apologize. to my son that I can not read all the comments on this post. I think it would be really nice if some of you go BACK in and WELCOME him to CCF.This forum has always been fun, so here goes my favorite banana![

OK, this is too cool, Connicoins, and I'm going to go ahead and accept a little egg on my face.

Lotsa teaching moments here.

Man I had to laugh after reading down the posts and then finding out that this is a 3 inch coaster! I sure thought it was simply a badly faked Morgan initially also. Just goes to show that with nothing for reference it is sometimes hard to determine an items size from photographs.

There were 3.2 million of these minted. Most of these were sent into circulation at the time so worn examples are easier to come by than mint state coins. Some bags of these were distributed from the San Fran mint in 1926, these also going into circulation. Some were also handed out at the cash window at the Treasury building in Washington in the '30s and from San Fran again in the 50s. Since collector interest in Morgans was not great at the time, most of these also went into circulation. Most likely some were also paid out by the Treasury in '62, but not by the bagful. These were probably saved. Coins ranging from very good to about uncirculated grades will range from around 30 to 300 dollars. Mint state coins would range from 7 thousand to half a million, depending on grade, of course.

This info was taken from A Guide Book of Morgan silver dollars, 4th edition, by Q. David Bowers. If poetspennies has an interest in Morgan dollars I highly recommend this book!

I do have to ask though; If grandpa knew this was a 3 inch coaster, why would he want to have it appraised on Tuesday?

I will do more research tomorrow, but would like to know if the 3 million that were minted, were also 3" as well? This is a beautiful "replica" of Liberty. I nor grandpa has ever owed or interested in the Morgan, until I brought her home. So we researched her and couldn't really find anything except they did mint coins this big in those days. But we could never find any information on the size. Internet was down so we were left with old fashioned look it up in the coin books. We are Lincoln fans and our budget does not provide for a "Morgan" habit, but if it did we would start collecting her as well. Under the microscope, she has all the signs of being minted. I will post images later.