# 59 Of My Silver Dollars For Grading 1879 S Morgan

I'm almost embarrassed to post this one. But I said they would all be in order, and this is #59. I graded it when I bought it, but even back then in my database I see that I added a note at the time that read, "Polished or Proof like?". Even back then I was confused as to just what I was seeing.

Obviously the pictures I saw of this when I bid on it were somewhat like the pictures I just took of it with my fancy Panasonic camera. Completely hid everything. But my Cell Phone camera shows an entirely different coin with scratchiness that is just barely visible from the Panasonic pictures, and are not at all visible to the naked eye, not even visible under the magnification of a 10X jewelers loop no matter how you turn the coin. I don't understand the mechanics of that camera vs the other, but it is what it is and I really don't know what to think.

So obviously the MS-60 notation I put on the snap-tite case 3 years ago missed the mark by miles.

I guess this is a lesson, but I'm not sure of what? If I was just looking at this coin in hand and under a loop today for the first time, I might have the same question in mind as I did then ...... is this Proof like or polished?

Anyway the pictures that don't show the cleanings I took with the Panasonic, the others are from my cell phone, and the one on edge is to try and show the mirror like finish in the fields.

And like always, comments appreciated and what do you think?