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1898-S $1 Morgan Dollar #1

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 Posted 11/27/2023  07:59 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add panzaldi to your friends list
weaker strike for the year. I'm going with MS63 maybe 64. nice coin. you stole this one.
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 Posted 11/27/2023  09:10 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add IndianGoldEagle to your friends list
MS details, scratched.
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 Posted 11/27/2023  09:18 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add paralyse to your friends list
MS64, might details if those scratches are deep enough, as everyone else already noted.
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 Posted 11/27/2023  09:38 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Bump111 to your friends list
If this is MS63 or better, you got a killer price! Good buy in any case. Looking forward to your photos when received.
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 Posted 12/01/2023  5:47 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add numismatic student to your friends list
This came in. Thoughts? Thanks!

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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."
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 Posted 12/01/2023  7:44 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add paralyse to your friends list
Scratches don't look that bad here in new photos; MS64.
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 Posted 12/01/2023  8:59 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add numismatic student to your friends list
I think the cheek and ear area may be problematic. I have it as a high 62 or low 63 myself but the marks over the ear make me wonder whether it was slid on a surface. Beautiful fields are its saving grace. I think there's some debris at the tip of liberty's nose that I need to remove.

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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."
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 Posted 12/01/2023  10:44 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add kbbpll to your friends list
Those striations around the ear might be on the die or planchet. Here's an MS63 from PCGS gallery, slightly different orientation.

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 Posted 12/02/2023  09:06 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add fenton to your friends list
Scratches are normal bag marks and nowhere near a level that would details it, IMHO, so I'd say MS-63 for this example with a shot at 64.
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 Posted 12/02/2023  09:54 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add ericgreen to your friends list
Great buy. Looks nicer than the original photos. Still at MS-63 though. Good call kbbpll on the striations. I agree
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 Posted 11/07/2026  01:28 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add numismatic student to your friends list
I ran into this coin as I was looking through my raw Morgans, saw that this was a better date, and saw that my pictures in this old thread were awful. Since my photo setup had improved, I thought that I would reimage this coin and solicit further thoughts. Impressed by the fields and reverse, but the chatter on the cheek stands out. Let me know what you think on the grade if it has changed. Thanks!
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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."
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really nice reverse. I'm going with roller marks around the ear area.

MS63 maybe details for the scratch
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I think this is net graded to MS-62 for all the reasons listed above.
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To me, this one is yelling MS63+.
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