Morgan Dollar CC 1882

Doesn't look right to me. Looks like it was cast or something. Looks pitted and looks like a seam of some sort around the obverse rim. Just my guess.

I concur with the above. Having just (sadly) parted with an 1882-CC PCGS MS-66, this one is too rough on all the edges, has granulation, a sure sign of a casting. Is this being offered on an auction? If so, let us know which one so we can report it.

Fred

I think you did fantastic on the Morgan 1889D. Beautiful coin for $12.00 The 1921 is not a bargain as these are very plentiful and there are alot of excellent grade selections. Although it still is a Morgan and a good coin to have.

Unsharpened



Oversharpened




See the grainy "cast" look it gives it?

bobby - I get a little carried away on the sharpening sometimes, and I've also noticed, in addition to the graininess, if I sharpen the image too much it causes discoloration in the scan that isn't there in hand.

Coins all look real to me. Why would anybody counterfeit a common date morgan? Now, if there was an 89-cc, or a 93-s in the mix.....

It can be quite profitable to counterfeit common coins since they can be sold in volume. If it costs only a few cents to counterfeit a coin worth a dollar in face value, then there's considerable profit margin and if it can be peddled on the collector market as a coin worth, say $18, there's that much more profit, especially if sold by the hundreds. Further, uneducated or semi-educated collectors are less likely to look closely at a counterfeit common coin than at one known to be a less common date and mint mark and it's even less likely that a person who has been defrauded for a small amount will attempt to recover this amount than if s/he has been defrauded for hundreds or thousands of dollars. Further, I believe counterfeit Morgans of common dates were in relatively common use back in the days when real Morgans were used in slot machines in the Nevada gambling resorts; as long as the fake Morgan approximated the actual weight and was not magnetic, it would pass through the machines.

I have a counterfeit 1898(P) Morgan which is about the same commonality as the above 1882(P). While its origin is probably China, I cannot rule out the possibility it was cast for the slot machine trade.

Maxentius, given your question about use of sharpness in photo editing, it appears you did not sharpen the image. I might conclude that the Morgan is as presented in the image: very suspicious.