1883-O Morgan For Grade Please

Nice coin!






Agreed - MS64



Also, you might want to flatten the staples to prevent scratching other coins stored against the 2 x 2.

Photos seldom tell the complete story especially w/r/t the presence or not of luster. The setup & positioning of equipment and especially optimal lighting settings are difficult to perfect. If luster is completely absent and the cheeks dings are significantly deep, it would be difficult to see this one reach a 64. But those are a lot of 'ifs'.

Am I correct to assume that this coin is inside of a TPG slab having a grade?

Those cheek hits are pretty deep, MS-63 at best for me.

@mdpmedia...I truly have a lot to learn when it comes to the photography of coins...using a Samsung Note 5 and a digital microscope with most of the light coming from a computer monitor. I would like to send them in to get professionally graded sometime soon.

I played with your photos a bit, reducing the lighting and increasing the color contrast. It's a nice coin, common date, with a typical New Orleans strike.

The obverse contact marks include a deep, circular mark extending from the cheek through the ear and hair to the first cotton blossom, the three cheek marks, and two minor rim dings at 9 o'clock. The reverse is much better, with a minor contact mark on the eagle's breast and a few minor scuff marks in the field.

A bigger concern is disruption of the luster. On the obverse, it is evident in the cap fold, hair above the forehead, hair above the ear, cheek, and second cotton blossom. On the reverse, it is subtle, but present on the eagle's right wing tip (our visual left), breast, talons, upper leaves of the wreath, and the ribbon and bow.

The New Orleans mint also served as a coin depository for the region. Silver dollars were not terribly popular there, and circulated only lightly. The New Orleans mint had a habit of receiving lightly circulated dollars back from banks and combining them with newly minted uncirculated dollars in mint bags. This was noted in the "silver rush" in the 1950s and 1960s, when mixed date mint bags of New Orleans dollars surfaced. I suspect that is the history of your dollar.

To me, the luster disruption indicates light circulation. As a result, I would grade your dollar AU-58. The good news is that there is very little price difference between an AU-58 and MS-63 1883-O. Without the circulation, I would be at MS-63 on your coin because of the obverse contact marks.

Again, nice coin, and thank you for sharing it with us!

EDIT: It would help if I remembered to upload the adjusted photos!

MS-63

Deep cheek scratches make this a 63 I think. Some of those MS65 Morgans above seem to have been overgraded imho