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Fantastic bullseye toning and a VAM-4 to boot! Congrats on a great coin! Based on those TrueView pics, I'd say MS-63+.
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Bedrock of the Community
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MS-63.
Errers and Varietys.
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Nice looking coin. MS62 but this will trade based on the spectacular toning.
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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Bedrock of the Community
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I'll say MS-63. Knockout coin.
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scrap the TV shots. PCGS loves this type of toning and adds a premium to a coin exhibiting it. if the marks across the jaw and neck are on the coin then MS63. if its a clean cheek like the TV shots are showing then MS66
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I'm thinking MS-62 but it's hard to see what are contacts so higher grade would be no surprise here
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Stunner. MS-63 based on actual photos. TV makes it look real nice
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Everyone has been spot on. As Zurie pointed out, this is a VAM-4 and as many others guessed this was graded MS-63 by PCGS. I'm debating sending it back in for the variety designation as it would be tied for top pop.  |
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As others have already said, I don't think adding the attribution to this slab would currently provide any increase in value if/when it is sold. It would be cool to have a top pop VAM and if I was going to do that, I'd probably use the VSS service without resubmitting to PCGS (unless you think there is a chance that they'd bump the grade and/or add a "+".) And this coin will sell based on the toning as has also been stated. I can't tell you how many VAM cherry-picks I've lost to people who were after toning. Unless it is a super-VAM, I don't even look for varieties on heavily toned coins any more because it would cost more than I'm willing to pay for the particular variety. A good way to determine if the variety adds value is to go to Great Collections, look up your coin in the auction archives, make note of recent sold prices, throw the VAM designation into the "keyword" filter and compare. It will surprise you how many of the VAMs just don't add value above the coin itself. By the way - I think your Morgan is beautiful! "Nummi rari mira sunt, si sumptus ferre potes." - Christophorus filius Scotiae
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