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  AG-3 Carson City Morgans: The real coins of the Old West 
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Pillar of the Community
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Nice coin!
Are you putting together a lowball set?
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I'm assembling a Carson City Morgan dollar date set, all in AG-3. The key date (1889-CC) is, of course, the easiest year to find in this grade.   AG-3's are too high a grade for low-ball Morgan registry sets, those guys are looking for FR-2's and PO-1's...   Edited by DNA
03/16/2012 8:39 pm
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Nice looking, original coin. Has that original grey color.
Wonder how many saloons she's seen?
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Wonder how many saloons she's seen? I was wondering how many pokers games she has participated in. |
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hmm nice coin, love to see these coins actually were used for once makes you wonder who actually had it/held it etc if that coin could only talk!
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Or brothels!
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Good luck finding the 1885 CC Morgan.... its more rare in AG-3 than MS and will cost about the same.
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I think it would go G4 Edited by amida17
03/16/2012 10:41 pm
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Or brothels! Vermontensium, is there something you're not telling us....  |
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Oh, uhmmm....no  swcoin.ecrater.com
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This coin has character. Really nice. It could have been a pocket piece also.
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Quote:I think it would go G4  Full readable date & lettering. Very nice though.  |
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I think it would go G4 No denticles left on either rim should be an automatic AG-3 (some denticles are still on the Photograde G-4 coin), also wear on tips of letters "E P" on obverse, "R I C A" and "A R". Check out this 1890-CC's reverse. It's a miracle. Denticles worn away evenly, but no tips of any letters worn off. This one, I could see being given a pass to G-4 (or at least a CAC sticker!) (which is why I bought another AG-3 1890-CC as a downgrade. )  Edited by DNA
03/17/2012 9:23 pm
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I would say it is closer to 3 than 4. There is quite a range between the two examples posted by jeffrose. I'll call it a 3+.
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Cali_Nick: Good luck finding the 1885 CC Morgan.... its more rare in AG-3 than MS and will cost about the same. Here's my 1882-CC, also far rarer than in AG-3 grade than MS.   Total 1882-CC Morgan dollar mintage: 1,133,000 Total Uncirculated 1882-CC Morgans in the GSA inventory (1972): 605,029 Right there, 53.4% of the total 1882-CC Morgan mintage never entered circulation, and some may have been melted down for the Pittman Act in 1918. So, out of the 527,971 (or less!) 1882-CC Morgans that did get into circulation, now find one that wore all the way down to AG-3 before someone finally decided to save it. When we get to the 1885-CC Morgan, a whopping 148,285 of them were Uncirculated in GSA's inventory, out of the 228,000 total mintage. 65% of the 1885-CC Morgans ever minted never entered circulation!  Edited by DNA
03/17/2012 9:00 pm
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