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Grade Suggest For 1878-S Morgan

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 Posted 08/05/2012  4:33 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add bjtheoldman to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I would like it if some of you more knowledgeable people could give me an idea for a grade on this 1878 S Morgan.

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I know the pictures are not the best and that will not help you but I do not have a great camera.

Thank you for your time and trouble.
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 Posted 08/05/2012  6:48 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add eddiespin to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
MS64. Based on those images it looks dipped.
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Tough to grade from these photos because of the lighting. The back looks gem MS-65 but I'm having trouble with the obverse. All the dark gray on the face is either contact marks or rubbing as the frosty luster is broken.
Just based on these photos I am going to say slider AU-58 but it does not looked cleaned.
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 Posted 08/05/2012  7:34 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add D0ubl3Eagle to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
The lighting is not the best. My guess is MS-62.
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Sorry for the bad image, but like I said my camera is not the best and not having good lights I took the picture outside.

Thanks anyway for the opinions. I really appreciate it as I have 4 or 5 other Morgans I would like opinions on some time later.
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Your Morgan dollar looks to be MS-63 to me.
I dont think the coin has been dipped or cleaned.
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looks MS-62
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I disagree with the consensus. Based on those images at least that coin had been dipped at some point. Just compare the way the light reflects on the surface to that in a white GSA Morgan and you'll see that. The bounce has been compromised by the dip.

That said, you never want to get hung up on labels. That's a loser. At the same time, though, that doesn't necessitate you evaluate coins like you're half-blind. That is to say, this coin is perfectly acceptable for the market if you just consider this one thing--many if not most white Morgans have been dipped and they slab and trade in the major auction venues every day. A lot of that occurred, paradoxically, to dip out the very attribute many of us, today, collect--namely, tarnish. And that's why you'll be pressed to find a tarnished GSA Morgan in an "Uncirculated Silver Dollar" holder. Today, the "coin doctors" dip to impart tarnish; back then, they dipped to remove it.

Again, it looks to me, based on those images, as though the coin had been dipped at some point, but that's nothing to freak out about. Bottom-line, it's a perfectly market acceptable coin.
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