89-CC Morgan

I understand and I'm not offended. I just hate dishonest people. I'm a stickler for honesty, maybe a little TOO honest at times. Give you an example. I frequent a local flea market and there is a guy who had a little case of silver coins. A bunch of mixed coins some of which were around 30ish morgan and Peace dollars. He was selling them at $30 a piece. I had looked through that pile twice and the third time something caught my eye. The guy said that there were no new coins but I insisted on looking at them again. So in the process I find one with the date 1 8 (something) 5... I used the guys lupe to see if it was an 8 or 9. It was hard to tell because the outer rim was pretty worn. Turned out to be a "9" 1895 O in what looked to be possibly AG or G condition. So then I thought to myself do I tell him, or do I give him the thirty dollars? So what did I do? I told him to put it aside because it's worth more than thirty, turns out potentially between one hundred to two hundred dollars. I figured I could score some karma points, plus I'm not about ripping anyone off.


It's all good. I didn't take it personally... I just know there are too many shady people and it's sad.

I may be looking at this coin on my cellphone, but my cell has a 5" screen and it's not lacking much. Nothing looks amiss to me, and the opinion of the man who offered a VAM attribution is to be trusted.

[quote]We don't often get to see introductions like this, here. More often, it's our lot to explain to our new members why they should be so disappointed. I don't think this is such a case.[quote] I guess that I should be happy cause it sounds like the consensus is it's looking legit.. I'm here to listen to everyone and learn as much as I can.

Also where on the VAM site posted earlier does it refer to look for that DIE MARK that was apparently left?

Im sorry I've bene through this thread twice and cant find what you said you payed for it.. also, I hope someone tried the magnet test and weighed it. I never buy a silver coin with out doing the magnet test. Saved me twice. I hope its real tho. Beautiful coin.

There seems to be a crack in that general area on the reverse in my first post if that is what your referring to.

I'm looking at it and it's kinda confusing me a bit. I'll eventually figure it out. Where in that article does it mention the die crack running from the denticles to the E in America? I guess I'm not seeing it.

I didn't mention the price I paid. I'll hold of on that for a bit before I disclose it. Magnet test was done. The coin guy I brought with me didn't take his scale. I told him to but I guess he was pretty confident in his ability. He told me.. "If this is gonna be a good fake then it will hold all the properties a real one has. It will be silver, weigh what it should way and be the diameter that it should be" I thought that was pretty ballsy but put my faith in his ability. I don't have a great scale, just some el cheepo one I picked up a week or so ago... I used that to weigh it when I got home. It weighs .95 ounces

Well they are supposed to weigh 26.73 so if your scale rounded up ( some cheap ones do that ) then it could be correct

Honestly I would send it in to be graded as soon as possible if I were you.

Do you know how it was acquired from the relative?




Yes, it does. If someone offered me a coin as valuable as this with that story I definitely would not buy it without talking to the relative it was acquired from first.

Ed
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