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Pillar of the Community
Italy
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Hello everyone, I always feel a lot better posting wins or potential wins on the forum but I likely overpaid for six Morgans this morning. This 1899 O is probably the worst of the six, but they are all similar enough. Curious how coins like this grade and approximately how they are valued/considered/ etc. In the u.s. Thanks, everyone... R.   |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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To me, just a bullion coin in this condition.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1048 Posts |
Correct on all three counts ... cleaned, polished, and it's a cull. It's worth spot silver minus whatever the buyer takes.
It's karma for that 1884-CC that landed in your hands last month!
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Agree with the assessments above.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Agreed with above.
Errers and Varietys.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2282 Posts |
Hard pass for me.
To go from an unc 1884-cc to this is pretty silly.
I don't see why you have to buy everything, learn to pass on bad coins.
You realize when you know how to think, it empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think.
-Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Pillar of the Community
 Italy
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Thank you all. So $20 coins? @numismaticsftw...you're right ahaha... Although this is a vendor I have a relationship with I guess at some level it's maintaining that. But... like the CC ... these exchanges are fast and often thoughtless... for better or worse...I buy everything because 5-6/100 are better dates and 1/100 in a CC and I have never paid more than $25-35 for a Morgan... my average is likely less than $30 per coin. Occasionally, I find something better ... roman republic coins in lots, a U.S. cent from 1800 for about $30,... part of the risk and reward I suppose. Last week I bought 31 pre-65 quarters for €90. If I buy everything, vendors sell to me at low prices. Here are two more from the lot...    Edited by Roma2021
10/02/2023 3:58 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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These are a little better, especially the 87. They're common-date low-to-mid-grade Morgans, still worth only bullion prices, but pleasing enough to keep.
The 99 is for the melting pot.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Bedrock of the Community
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the least expensive VF details coin that sold on ebay was about $24. so i'd put both of these in that range |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Vf details
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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Posted 10/01/2023 5:54 pm
