Morgan Dollar Help Needed

Welcome to Coin Community, SHBcoins. Although accurate, your images are too small for any definitive opinion as regards grade; the best I could offer is that this one is no worse than high AU. It could well be Mint State; the luster seems sufficient. My gut tells me it is.

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I'm going to move this to our Grading forum, where you'll reach a more specific audience.

That's the ticket.

I have this one as very slightly circulated. No reason to doubt its' authenticity. As regards cleaning, this one displays (sort of) one of the "classic" signs - the blotchy toning around the devices - but my gut tells me that it's original-surfaces. I've seen this pattern a few times before with Morgans, and the luster is nicely undisturbed.

Pro tip: to check for harsh cleaning (brushing), take the coin and a low-magnification loupe out into bright sunlight. You'll need to rotate and angle the coin around a bit - most times, you can't see a brushing except from one or two angles. Direct sunlight is hard on a coin, and will bring that out if anything will.

However, digital photography is even harder on a coin, and will expose the hairlines of brushing even if your eyes won't. It's one of the reasons I'm optimistic about this one.

It seems that quite a few of the Morgan's have that appearance. I did go to a coin shop and have a guy look at the Morgans and he said they were not cleaned. He wasn't too helpful and barely looked at them though. Here is another 1979 S with a similar look and a bit more luster.

The first dollar I'd put at AU the second one looks full Mint State to me also, I'd say MS63/64 and quite nice, it has the Redfield appearence (a large hoard of Morgan and Peace dollars), the color or toning is very close to how many of them looked from the same hoard.