Posted 01/22/2012 4:29 pm
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Anybody have any ideas?
Anybody have any ideas?
They will when I put this post in the appropriate forum.
I will caution you, though, expecting an answer in less than two hours on a Sunday afternoon is a little unrealistic, and will likely leave you disappointed. We're happy to have you here, and don't wish for your experience to be a disappointing one.
The 1884-S Morgan, minted at the San Francisco Mint, is not exactly a rarity. A low mintage of 3.2 millions by Morgan standards, but certainly not hard to find. They are, however, rather pricey if found in Uncirculated condition, as the vast majority were released into circulation.
It's tough to tell precisely from these relatively-small images, but your coin looks to have seen circulation.
US coins are graded on a 70-point numeric scale first proposed by Dr. William Sheldon in his 1949 Penny Whimsy. You can find a description of the scale, and how it relates to the descriptive grading names you've used, here:
http://coins.about.com/od/coingradi...on_scale.htm
