Flea Market Special 83 CC

Liberty suffered a hit in the battle, but I'd hate to see her opponent.

The line looks to be a nearly-contemporary gouge, worn back down by circulation. That's why you can't see the initial gouge which threw up the line of metal - it's been covered by the metal it displaced. Not unusual.




Keep in mind, the letters on a coin are tapered - wider at the base than the top. That eases striking. Our attention is drawn to the highest point of the letters when we look at an uncirculated coin; we don't see the "pyramid" below it. As the coin wears, subjectively the letters get bigger. They were that wide all the time, but not worn to that point.

This one has a lot of character. It did its' job for many years, something we can't say about some babied, slabbed Uncirc.

Here's a shot of her nose up close. Sure does look like a gouge to me but with what, I don't know. Appears to the the imprint of some sort of implement just to the left of the gouge. Yes, the lady does have character and well earned. That's one of the things I like so much about Morgans. Even given the same year and mm, they're all different. Started out collecting ASE's but quickly got bored. Seen one, seen em all. All clones. I was also wondering about that CC mm but not for the same reason. The size of the 2 C's are different but I assume that's a normal variant. Thanks for the G6+ rating. Didn't think it was that good. And SD, as the confirmed anti-slabber that you are, have you been put on the PCGS, NGC hit list yet? Just kidding of course. Actually, I'm coming to appreciate your point of view in the regard.

Yeah, it looks like somebody got her with a knife, just a touch into the bridge of the nose and angled the same direction. You can see it clearly below the nose. Over time, the displaced metal has shifted back towards the nose, obscuring the original injury which is in shadow in your detail pic.

I'm not really "anti-slab," I just hold a fairly high threshold (~$500 or important/rare/popular counterfeit) before I recommend it. My opinion might be different if I could actually afford to collect that stuff.

Nice flea market find! I love going to them for coins. Sift through the over-priced ones, and I walk away with a handful of deals every time!

I'm still looking for a deal on a Morgan, but I'm sure it will happen eventually.

Nice. It's liberty during nosejob surgery!

All I can say is that's a very respectable old girl to have circulated that long with nobody paying any attention to her. Good pick up.

mind telling what you paid for her?

Love that story Biggfredd. We have 2 flea markets here. One is huge and very commercialized and the other is, for the most part, a mom and pop type affair which is where I got this coin. Always loads of other off-the-wall things up for sale. Got an old antique mariner's clock there once for $15 which turned out to be worth $250 when I took it in to have it cleaned. I paid $35 for this CC Morgan by the way. He originally wanted more but turned out he wasn't as mercenary as the coin dealers. Another time I got an old 1940's era Grundig tabletop tube radio for $120. The kind the whole family used to sit around listening to before the days of TV. I've been offered quite a bit more for it but I'm hanging on to it. Still works great and I'm a radio man anyway. But the guy with the Morgan used to live in Reno(land of the silver dollars)and says to check back with him as he makes a couple trips back every month or so and gets good deals from people he knows. Maybe he'll show up with an 1895 !