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I think I did fair on this one. I needed one for a place filler until I want to buy A higher Graded one. She has a few long but light scratches. No hairlines . Coin is darker than my pics but so are the darker areas. Not sure why but I see many dark 1896-s Morgans out there. Have at it and I will reveal what I paid in a few days. I think she has the look of a VF-30 in hand. The few scratches may cause a issue . Of course I had a 1901 with similar big but deeper scratches come back straight grade XF-40so who knows. I dont think I will try to grade this one unless it goes with a bulk submission since its so cheap that way.     Edited by JasonKflo
04/09/2022 9:48 pm
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I think a VF30 is pretty much spot on for this coin.
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Bedrock of the Community
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Perhaps VF-35, but I think not higher.
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VF35
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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I'm tempted to say EF-40 since it's an S mint and they aren't knockout strikes but, conservatively, at least VF-35.
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I will say as far as eye appeal the coin and color look much better in hand than my photos indicate . Not that it looks a higher grade than I can capture but just nicer.One thing that does not show in the pics that does in hand you can see all the feathers on the right wing which look broken in the pic and she has some lighter chest feathers though mostly worn down.
Wish I could figure out better photos from my I phone 13.
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Circling back on this one. I paid 105.00 at my local coin shop and thought it was a pretty fair price for this coin. I've seen many uglier VF coins going for 200 bucks or so
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Posted 04/09/2022 10:13 pm
