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I thought a thread on this could be useful to me and future finders of it. With a cursory Internet search I cannot find a list of morgans that are rarely seen and hard to come by in low grades. Can someone who knows most of them can make a list and put the right Metta tag words for later Google searches. Thanks!
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Just go look at the PCGS Registry Sets of lowball collectors. The rarest ones are the ones they don't have yet. Pretty simple.
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1885-CC and 1903-O are the two kingpins of the conditionally rare Morgans, IMHO. I would also include 1881-CC in that list.
I have tons more respect for a Morgan collection that, for example, has a nice VG-10 1885-CC and VG-10 1903-O in it.
1. The two coins are fairly rare.
2. It tells me that particular collector truly understands the Morgan series and its history.
Edited by DoubleEagle20
05/21/2015 8:43 pm
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I agree with DE20. I would also include the 84CC in that list. Since over 84% was saved in mint condition until the GSA sales. I just sent one in to PCGS for my circ set. I graded it VF25. If it does grade as such, it will only be the 5th example. I still don't consider it rare in general terms, but in relative terms to the series, conditional rarity would apply.
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1903-O is the top of my list. It's kind of ironic that up until now I refused to buy one because the government release put many MS coins into the market but the "going" prices never really seemed to adjust to this. Now that I've begun a circulated set and I'll need to pay near MS money for a F grade coin. AAARGH!!
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I know where u can get a nice VG-10 1903-O in PCGS plastic, Dave.
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The 1903-O comes to my mind as well. To think that some of these coins survived circulation for years when they were true rarities before the treasury release is pretty amazing.
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As a new Morgan collector, I thank you for the info! Quote:
1885-CC and 1903-O are the two kingpins of the conditionally rare Morgans, IMHO. I would also include 1881-CC in that list.
I have tons more respect for a Morgan collection that, for example, has a nice VG-10 1885-CC and VG-10 1903-O in it.
1. The two coins are fairly rare.
2. It tells me that particular collector truly understands the Morgan series and its history.  |
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Judging from the PCGS Registry, the rarest ones are as follows:
1893
1893-S
1894
1900
Those are the examples which have no P01's graded in the #1 set, which is replete with Pop 1 P01's and clearly the finest set in existence. Everything he has is the lowest grade available. 1885-CC has 9 in FR2 and one P01; 1903-O has 5 between FR2 and P01.
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Man Dave that makes me want to carry around my 1893 for about 6 months....its a borderline Ag leaning to F-02 hmmmmm haha
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Ssssshhhhhh.  |
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Perotti31. I knew a thread like this would be helpful now & for future Google searches  Thanks everybody! Edited by Cascade
05/29/2015 5:57 pm
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