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What do you think?   Edited by rbaker20
09/09/2025 01:40 am
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Bedrock of the Community
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Because of the light strike I'll go 62
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You think? I was in more of the 63 range.
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Bedrock of the Community
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I think "eye appeal" comes into play on common date Mint State Morgans. The weak hairline - and the weak reverse rim lowers it to 62 - but that is just my opinion.
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Bedrock of the Community
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I'll guess MS-63.
Errers and Varietys.
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Typical New Orleans coin. That mint did a great job when they basined the dies, producing so many beautiful prooflikes. They also did a terrible job striking the coins, mostly because of the coining presses they had to use, producing so many pancakes.
Two places where I hesitate a bit on this coin. There is an area of abrasion from the lips diagonally SSE to the area below the hair curls with the D void. It's in a spot that is highly visible, so TPGs will notice it more. IMHO, it's still consistent with MS-63. The other concern is something that you will be able to see better with the coin in hand, and that's the flatness on the reverse rim from 3:30-5:30. I don't see anything suggesting post-mint damage, but that's something for you to check. If there isn't any damage, and it's just New Orleans being New Orleans, I think it's a solid MS-63.
Nice cartwheel.
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Bedrock of the Community
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the 85(O) are known for slightly weaker to average strikes. obv looks a little flatter than rev.
MS63
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64
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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Facial marks look pretty light, MS-64.
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Posted 09/09/2025 01:45 am
