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1891-O Morgan Dollar

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This date really jumps up in value in the MS range. What would it grade in your opinion? I may start rounding up a bunch of my Morgans and consider sending them to get graded.

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 Posted 10/21/2013  9:25 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add IndianGoldEagle to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Looks pretty frosty but baggy. I'm in at MS-61.
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It's difficult to make conclusive statements about the surface of a coin presented via scan. However, scanners are pretty good with physical detail, and with these being so large and nicely-focused, I'm comfortable with calling this one Mint State. Particularly telling are the striations appearing across the center of the reverse devices. It's a typically-execrable New Orleans strike, so weak that the breast feathers, talons, neck feathers and even the olive leaves and arrow points and fletches are gone.

This coin hasn't circulated. I suspect MS62-ish and VAM-16 from the looks of it.
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Initial thought is 62, and yes, it's UNC.
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MS-62.
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MS63.
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First of all, I agree that this appears to be MS and my guess would be 61/62. Second, what a contrast in strike between the obverse and reverse! If I were to look first at the reverse strike, I would expect much less strike detail on the ear and the hair above the ear. That is wild.

I also agree with SD on the attribution. Definitely a near date position and MM set high.
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 Posted 10/22/2013  6:49 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add WheatBack to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks everyone. Greatly appreciated. Thanks for the VAM designation as well.
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