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Italy
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Hello all  Posting the first of my interesting USA coins for general comments and discussion! This is the oldest silver one. Pretty beaten up! This should be a common 1900-O Morgan dollar from what I researched. I don't think this can be a CC/O despite the heavy wear. Is my identification correct? From looking online (found a nice Mint Grade chart) it should probably be a grade between AG3 to G5? What do you think?    This silver dollar was passed down since the 50ies when it probably emigrated. Not sure if it was cleaned before. Strange looking corrosion/patina on the left obverse. How would you conserve it, if anything at all? Water & acetone cycles? Something for the green oxidation or whatever is going on with the obverse? Thanks all!  Edited by joe_77
01/08/2024 2:02 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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This is a details coin given the damage in the left obverse field and into the rims. No conservation is going to make this coin grade straight. I would keep it as a historical artifact connected to your family since the 50s. I know the U.S. wild west has been a popular topic in Italy for a long time. When I was a kid I had a book called "Morte Della Neve" set in the Sierras in the Wild West. Thanks for sharing an example of a coin that emigrated to the old world.  to the CCF. 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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This is a details coin given the damage in the left obverse field and into the rims. Thank you numismatic student for pointing out "details coins". Didn't know about them! Would this be in the AG DETAILS realm or G DETAILS realm (or more or less)? It's interesting how the P on the obverse is basically evenly etched into the metal.. how could this happen? Anyone wants to take a guess? Quote:
No conservation is going to make this coin grade straight By the way, my will to do something in the conservation department is just to preserve it. Wonder if whatever ate the observe is still at work there? Obverse and rim is pretty gunky. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Joe you can try some pure acetone and then rinse with water and pat dry to see if it removes and surface grime.
Other than that I would not do anything as it will only damage the coin further
I believe this would be an AG details coin..
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01/08/2024 2:32 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Based on Photograde I'd give it G4 Details. It has mostly full rims all around showing some denticles. AG shows no rims left. Borderline though.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Too far gone, just a bullion coin.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Good Details. Still a nice piece of history. Errers and Varietys.
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Italy
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Thanks to all! By the way, here's a detail of the P completely eaten up. Anyone want to guess how did this happen? Or what that bubbly kind of gunk on the obverse is?  Edited by joe_77
01/09/2024 07:52 am
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 United States
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Nice piece of history here, I would leave it - but do give it a goo long soak in Acetone (NOT fingernail polish remover)
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Pillar of the Community
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Italy
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Thank you! I will post updated pics after I soak it  |
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Posted 01/08/2024 2:23 pm
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