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Posted 03/16/2015 1:21 pm
It's about the *amount* of coverage. You don't see Morgans so completely covered in color that often, and when they are the pattern doesn't usually look like this. PCGS obviously saw it as OK; good on them. As to the grade, though....
It's really difficult to shoot colorful Morgans at a gradable level. The ding below the eye is so prominent as to be worth maybe half a point itself, but with what I have here I don't see a 62 either. Highly doubtful it would break 64 under the best of conditions, conserved or not. It made a righteous PCGS slab; that's all you need here.
Seek out Todd Pollock of BluCC Photos. He posts here occasionally. He's based out of Sacto but hits all the major shows, and nobody alive can bring out color in a coin any better than he can. I'm betting that coin doesn't really need to worry about a grade to make you some money if that's your wish. It's a popular VAM because it's common, on a major List and available in high grades. Yours is toned in a good slab, and your thinking that the color will attract a premium is accurate. As long as it's depicted as favorably as it can be.
It's really difficult to shoot colorful Morgans at a gradable level. The ding below the eye is so prominent as to be worth maybe half a point itself, but with what I have here I don't see a 62 either. Highly doubtful it would break 64 under the best of conditions, conserved or not. It made a righteous PCGS slab; that's all you need here.
Seek out Todd Pollock of BluCC Photos. He posts here occasionally. He's based out of Sacto but hits all the major shows, and nobody alive can bring out color in a coin any better than he can. I'm betting that coin doesn't really need to worry about a grade to make you some money if that's your wish. It's a popular VAM because it's common, on a major List and available in high grades. Yours is toned in a good slab, and your thinking that the color will attract a premium is accurate. As long as it's depicted as favorably as it can be.
message received. Thanks SD... one more question- what's going on with the "o" of god? Looks almost like a filled die? I know the toning is in play with that letter but look how very shallow, almost non existent it is compared to the G & d...
