Difficult Grading, Bad Photos: Very Original 1880 Morgan Dollar? Dark Tone? - Page 2

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paralyse Bedrock of the Community United States 12057 Posts	Posted 02/06/2017 11:03 pm My in hand grade is AU 53 details, and once, many years ago, this coin was wiped with a cleaning cloth and left to sit. These photos are not very good but I am trying my best. Look at it straight on - directly ahead, and you get this... Now tilt it into the light, and it's a whole different coin. Gold is everywhere, a fiery copper red runs through the hair, greens and blues are on the edges. Flip it over and the reverse has electric blues and greens around the rim, with sharp reddish purples towards the bottom and center. Note that there are not actually hairlines, just fingerprint marks and the evidence of where a cloth rubbed it at one point, leaving streaks that toned. This one matches the toning in hand most closely, below. Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis Report this Post to the Staff
MikeF Pillar of the Community United States 3479 Posts	Posted 02/06/2017 11:12 pm Very, very Nice! I vote to leave it alone. Report this Post to the Staff
numismatic student Bedrock of the Community United States 11902 Posts	Posted 02/06/2017 11:19 pm The orange makes it look like there are hot coals under Liberty's hair. Still wondering how you were able to see this potential based on the original pics. Congrats! IN NECESSARIIS UNITAS - IN DUBIIS LIBERTAS - IN OMNIBUS CARITAS THE MAN IN THE ARENA, Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne Paris on April 23, 1910: "It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat." My coin website:https://fairfaxcoins.com Report this Post to the Staff
paralyse Bedrock of the Community United States 12057 Posts	Posted 02/06/2017 11:27 pm It's being left alone, of course. I'm putting it into my Dansco with my other raw Morgans, as-is. Seller shipped it completely raw, wrapped in a paper towel held together with clear packing tape. I wasn't able to see the "potential", not per se, but 20-odd years of playing with Morgan dollars has taught me a thing or two about lighting and colors. Member ANA - EAC - TNA - SSDC - CCT #890 "Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done." -- Louis D. Brandeis Edited by paralyse 02/06/2017 11:29 pm Report this Post to the Staff
smoke1439 Valued Member United States 397 Posts	Posted 02/07/2017 07:22 am Very astute Adam! Report this Post to the Staff
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