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$67. #24 of 40 acquired recently. Recently I purchased 40 slabbed Morgan dollars (36 ANACS, 3 PCGS and 1 ICG) and will post one a day alongside one Peace dollar. I paid an average of $67 for the 40 coins. This time I will post the grade of the coin 2 days after and this time we can compare our grades with those of TPGs. Thoughts? Thanks!    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.comEdited by numismatic student
01/24/2026 5:17 pm
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Love the die cracks on this one! That reverse is stunning. 64
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I'll say MS63. That die pair didn't last much longer!
"Nummi rari mira sunt, si sumptus ferre potes." - Christophorus filius Scotiae
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I'm at MS-63.
Errers and Varietys.
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I'll say MS-64; the marks on the cheek are probably not as bad as they look from the OP picture..
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nice reverse. I think the glare is hiding actual hits on the cheek rather than rub. MS63
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Nice looking MS-63. Die breaks galore on this one.
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That's one of the most beautiful reverses I've seen in a long time. The reverse fields are fantastic. By itself, the reverse would be an easy MS-65, with a shot at MS-65+. The ballgame here is the long diagonal scar on the cheek, running NW-SE from the eye to the lower hair. The dings in the field west of the nose are noticeable, and a couple of them are deep. The rest of the obverse is pretty nice, with just the surface rubs on the frost and some small scratches. The obverse still makes MS-63. The question is how much the reverse can lift that grade. I think that on a bourse floor, the reverse would carry more weight than with a TPG. I could see this trading as MS-64, but being slabbed as MS-63/63+. EDIT: This especially true for 1886. It's such a baggy year that halfway decent coins always get a second look. Again, that reverse is a stunner. Edited by fortcollins
01/25/2026 1:09 pm
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I have the sister to this coin that I bought raw a few years back. Will have to post some photos after numismatic posts the grade.
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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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