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1882 -O Morgan Good Details

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 Posted 09/21/2019  8:14 pm Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add jonnin to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Trying to grade this, and totally new to morgans.
My best guest is VM1. The O is upright and clear, can't see any S, don't see anything doubled (but, I can barely see the doubles in the examples!) 2 is open and clean. Help me see how to do this please.


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 Posted 09/21/2019  11:53 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Greasy Fingers to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
to CCF...I'm no expert, but the coin looks dipped to me.. to see what others say.....give it some time....good luck
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 Posted 09/22/2019  10:59 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jonnin to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks! You never know what something this old has been through. I do know its been sitting wrapped in a now disintegrating piece of cloth for more than 50 years -- it was part of my dad's stuff and the old ones came from his parents, he never bought, just kept stuff from change or found or inherited. I don't know if the cloth affected its toning or not. I gave it a 10 min acetone bath to get that stuff off, but everything I have read says that is ok.. did I mess up?

The chest feather detail is very worn but still there, its washed out by the light in the pic a bit.
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09/22/2019 11:07 am
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 Posted 09/22/2019  11:13 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Coinfrog to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I'll say AU-53.



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 Posted 09/22/2019  10:40 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jonnin to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I was actually asking about how to pick the sub-variation more than the quality.
But I appreciate the grading; you set it higher than I would have, but I am very conservative. I was thinking extra fine or lower AU.
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09/22/2019 10:40 pm
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 Posted 09/23/2019  10:31 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add dave700x to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
1882-O can be a tough nut to crack if it's not one of the obvious VAMs. If you have a plain upright and centered mint mark and open 2 with no obvious date doubling you may have hit the nail on the head, VAM-1.

I too have several '82-Os that I came to the same dead end with....I call them VAM nothing...It is a series ripe for a die study to be completed.

And please give that Morgan an acetone dip. If you are unfamiliar, search the subject here on CCF.
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 Posted 09/23/2019  6:03 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jonnin to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks! I did soak it. You should have seen it before! I may soak it some more later, its probably not extra clean.
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09/23/2019 6:05 pm
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