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New Member
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Found this 1921 silver dollar in a old trunk . Thought I'd share and get some thoughts on it . Ty   *** Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. *** |
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Pillar of the Community
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 to CCF! Your coin is called a Morgan dollar. They get their name from their designer. Your coin was minted in 1921 at the US mint in San Francisco. You can tell by looking on the reverse. You will see a small "S" located above the "DO" in the word "Dollar" |
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I moved your post to the appropriate section for the proper attention.  Give the CCF Free Image Optimizer a try to removed the blank space around the coin in images |
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Pillar of the Community
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Great find!
Welcome to ccf!
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to the family! Nice find, funny what people leave or forget about isn't it. Looks cleaned, was it that way or you give it a bath? Really in good shape, reverse looks AU53, but obverse looks more worn, looks XF45. Thanks kind of a disparity side/side, may have been mounted where more wear on one side?   |
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New Member
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I did clean it up it was 90% black . Thanks for your reply
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Bedrock of the Community
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I agree that there is a noticeable difference in wear from side to side. Possibly mounted before obverse out.
Maybe in a belt buckle that was polished from time to time.
In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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, To CCF . 1921-S Morgan dollar , well circulated and cleaned ( polished ).  |
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Bedrock of the Community
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to the CCF! |
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I did clean it up it was 90% black . Thanks for your reply ouch! |
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So I read I'm not supposed to clean a old coin ... is this true ? And why ?
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Bedrock of the Community
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Because originality = $. 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 |
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Yes, that is true. It destroys the surfaces and removes any mint luster (the cartwheel shine you see on new coins) that may be remaining. This also takes out some of the value.
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New Member
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Crud ! Well now I know ty :)
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