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$67. #10 of 40 acquired recently. Recently I purchased 40 slabbed Morgan dollars (36 ANACS, 3 PCGS and 1 ICG) and will post one a day alongside one Peace dollar. I paid an average of $67 for the 40 coins. This time I will post the grade of the coin 2 days after and this time we can compare our grades with those of TPGs. Thoughts? Thanks!    IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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There is a chance you may have another really good VAM here. I can't see the two things that define this VAM, but I see what look like the markers for it. 1897 VAM-8 is a Hot 50 Morgan, with doubled left stars 1-3 and a doubled cap top. I can't see those clearly. The date position looks right, and I do see die cracks from the "E" of ONE to the "D" of DOLLAR and along the tops of UNITED and STATES that look very close to some of the markers for this variety. EDIT: The cracks along UNITED and STATES appear on a couple 1897 dies in different forms, but as far as I know, the angled crack from "E" to "D" on ONE DOLLAR is only on this die pair. For the grade, this one is a lot less baggy and comfortably makes MS-63. The obverse looks like it would hold it back from MS-64. If this proves to be VAM-8, you did very well here. That's a popular VAM, and not particularly easy to find. Edited by fortcollins
01/10/2026 2:47 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
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I'll say MS-63.
Errers and Varietys.
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Broken luster on obverse but still a 63
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I'm changing up my strategy, still using QSGing put knocking the grade a point or two.
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Bedrock of the Community
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MS-63 even with the dull luster.
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nice average sharp strike for the year. broken luster on the obv fields and cheek. reverse looks MS64. obverse probably MS63.
net her at MS63+ I guess
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I also think this is a 63 but ANACS thinks it is a 61.  Love the crooked 7 in the date.  IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.comEdited by numismatic student
01/12/2026 7:39 pm
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The good thing is that I would much rather own an undergraded coin than an overgraded one.  IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: " It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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Yeah, they were a bit tough on this one.
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That's really nice luster for an 1897, too. Maybe your coins will help put to rest the myth that ANACS is "soft on grading." With the new photo, this looks solid as an MS-63. Good find at a 61 price, for sure.
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