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Where you got her at? I tried to get all her blemishes showing as best I could.   |
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Pillar of the Community
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Love the Reverse on this Morgan, it's too bad the Obverse brings it to an MS64
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I'll be a little more conservative and say MS-63.
Errers and Varietys.
Edited by Errers and Varietys
Yesterday 6:30 pm
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Pillar of the Community
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Some pretty good "hits" on the obverse keeps this at 62 to these old eyes of mine.
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With my Quick Scroll Grading, I put it at 62 but figure NGC labeled it due to the reverse
MS-63
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Bedrock of the Community
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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." My coin website: https://fairfaxcoins.com |
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Bedrock of the Community
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Odee this is actually a pretty nice 99 (P). although you can find them with sharp strikes, it is difficult to find nice examples that are not all marked up. the reverse strike is exceptional on her and is a solid MS65 and with that neck and breast its pretty close to a 66.
the most distracting of hits is on the jaw. there is a small amount of gold toning on the periphery but not enough to add to the eye appeal
i think the reverse helps this one and i'd give her a MS64 grade
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I agree with panzaldi, this is a nice coin for an 1899.
The obverse looks like a tossup between MS-62 and MS-63, and may be in the elusive MS-62+ camp. There are a few deeper hits and too many hits in the most obvious places to go higher. The gash on the neck and the two gouges on the cheek drive the grade here.
The reverse is fantastic, and could well make MS-65. I don't see any reverse pulling a Morgan up more than a half step, so I could see this netting as MS-63 or on a good day MS-63+. Again, it's a nice 1899.
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