A 93s Morgan - Opinions Please

Thanks to Slider and BadDog for the additional comments. If I can locate my USB microscope, I will try to examine the die markers as described.

Good point about posting separate photos - I didn't consider that more detail would be needed for a better examination. If I still have the individual photos, maybe I'll post them here later.

On another note, I sent this photo to GC for analysis at their request and they came back with the opinion that the coin may not be authentic based on mint mark. As I said, I will be taking this coin to my August club meeting for first-hand evaluation before sending anywhere.

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Missed this prior to last reply. That is the plan.

Yes, Heritage has the same package. I just don't want to go through the process unless I'm sure it's the real deal.

For the record, I would bet money on the Morgan specialists in my club - they've been at this for decades. There are very knowledgeable specialists on this forum as well, but it isn't fair to pin them down using only my sub-par photos.

Great idea, Westcoin - thank you. I will see if my LCS is open this weekend (very often away at shows) and take it to them for a look. They're a good bunch of guys and gals.

My USB scope has a light ring that cannot be turned off, so I wasn't able to get good, axial lighting on the incuse letters. But, I do see signs of the bunny ears. Hope to confirm with the microscope at the club meeting. I also attached higher res raw images of obv/rev.

Thanks to all who have offered opinions and advice. I will let you know how this all proceeds.

I think if your coin sells for more than a thousand than Great Collections charges 0 sellers fee

The Heritage seller's fee is negotiable, but with just a single coin they most likely will not budge from the 10%. Heritage is a very good auction house, but I'm not sure they're worth a 30% fee (20% buyer's and 10% seller's).

For auction houses that charge a buyers fee (pretty much all of them nowadays), you should keep in mind that potential buyers will lower their bids due to the buyers fee they will end up paying. If you must also pay a seller's fee, then your potential sales price gets hit with both fees. Because of this, I wouldn't recommend listing it with Heritage. Stacks & Bowers or Great Collections (the coin should sell for more than $1000 and have no seller's fee) might be better since they wouldn't have a seller's fee.

Unless you're willing to sell the coin at any price, you also want to ask the auction house what their reserve policy is and what the fees are, if any, if the coin doesn't sell at or above your reserve price.

You might want to consider getting the coin graded yourself (or have your LCS submit it for you) and try listing it on ebay (either as a BIN or reserved auction. Once it's graded, you can look at comparable sales to determine what to price it at.) before signing up with an auction house. This might end up netting you the most amount. If you don't like what you're being offered on an ebay listing, then you could always go the auction house route.

Why do you think it might detail? The rim bumps look pretty minor.

The '93S has been submitted to PCGS for encapsulation. I also sent in a '92S that I have along with the '79S/rev of '78 VAM-56 that I found a couple of years back:




The waiting game begins. I think the '92S may be along the same grade as the '93S, so rationale for grading is borderline, but I figured since I'm sending in one might as well get three in the shipment.

Thanks, again, to everyone for their assistance in this process.