1884 O Morgan

Here she is in person. Amazing what a little magnification can do. Not sure it will hold up to MS64 now but there's no sign of the fingerprint I thought might be there on the obverse. The fleck on the eagle's wing is on the capsule, not the coin. As for the DMPL, looks good on both sides "through the capsule" but didn't wanna take it out of the airtite to be sure. Pix are right outta the camera except for resizing.

Little lady didn't make the grade. Local coin dealer says it's a body bag prospect due to cleaning. Still looks mighty purdy in hand though without the benefit of magnification. Think I'll just keep her wrapped up snug as a bug in a rug in her airtite and keep her for my pocket piece. Finally managed to take some decent fotos (for me). The long scratch from L 2nd/3rd star to UNUM is on the airtite.

Never trust a local coin dealer on a cleaning opinion.

Unless there are obvious fine parallel hairlines across the surfaces, chances are an uncirculated coin will NOT be bagged as cleaned even if it has been dipped many time.

Jack, these pix were taken with a Canon A720/IS 8MP point n shoot camera. It came out a number of years ago and I got it from ebay for $90. Think the original price was $500-something. No computer plug-in (like to have one though). Just use a copystand and then put the camera's SD card into computer to see what kind of results I got. I'm still not totally happy with the results I'm getting and still experimenting but check out SuperDave's post at https://goccf.com/t/29441. Excellent tutorial on coin photography using lower end cameras. I do have an old JVC 3.3MP camera which works the best for super macro shots recommended by Bryan1315.

Fenton, this particular coin dealer is a PCGS authorized dealer and so thought I was in good hands. I wouldn't have thought he'd recommend against submission since he stands to make "dinero" on the transaction. Perhaps his code of ethics overcame his love of the $$ signs. But thanks for your thoughts. Now you've got me wondering agaih.

Every coin is different, which blows the concept of slabbing out of the water. The whole idea of slobbing is that one ms64 is the same as any other ms64, and it doesn't take much exposure to coins to know that is bullship.

Another major failing is body bagged coins, except for fakes. Two coins almost identical, one has been baking soda'd. First comes back 65, worth $10,000, second one body bagged. Essentially, the TPG is saying the cleaned coin is worthless, same as a fake, but we all know a knowledgeable collector might gladly pay $5000 for it.

It does look like it was wiped at one point, I must say... still a very fine coin.