1897-P Morgan Dollar - Do You Think MS-62 ?

I am thinking of it being more an MS-61.

Hi SsuperDdave,

I had discovered this earlier. She's already in plastic and labeled VAM6A. On ebay, the MS62 has a range of 40-90 dollars for graded examples. At 31 dollars, I did OK.

This one has the rusted back,

Numerous Die Breaks,










And it looks like a double W from the motto.

I miss-spoke/typed. I had read that the dies on the reverse would get an accumulation of moisture. The die had the rust, not the coin.


As opposed to Mrs-Spoke.


Sumtimes my spelling is nun two grate.

I wasn't trying to correct you I was just letting you know what term VAM collectors use for this type of thing. It is caused from exactly what you said, moisture accumulated on the Reverse die and caused it to rust. It in turn struck the coin and left pitting on the coins it struck. This would be there until someone noticed it and sent it off to be reworked or until the die just fell apart. At that time they would smooth out the fields once again and there would be no pitting or even allot of times die cracks left on the die so the next time it was used those features would be missing