3 Cent Silver Experts: MS, PL, Proof?

I bought a 3 cent silver yesterday and I really dont believe NGC's call on it. Here's 5 pics, the first three are mine and the other two are NGC's. I want to know your opinion for designation. Does it look like a, for lack of a better word, "plain" MS, a PL or a Proof?


I did no editing besides cropping to my pics.

 

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Nice. Looks like it has PL qualities, but maybe not enough for the designation.

 

Proof

 

Looks like a regular MS coin to me. I say this because 1) there are only 550 proofs from this year minted, and 2) the couple that I have seen seem to have more of a "matte" proof look to them, and 3) the rims are not correct for a proof coin.

The NGC pictures are too fuzzy, and they take them under weird lighting conditions, so I'm guessing that it doesn't have as much Cameo effect in hand. Your pictures are too dark, put more light on the coin. It appears to be a very nice piece, with a good strike, but if you think it is a Proof coin, you would need to have some pretty hefty diagnostics to prove it. Just thinking out loud here.

All in all, a very nice pick up. :thumb:

 

It looks like a regular MS coin to me as well. It does not look PL or Proof.

 

It looks MS.

 

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I'm no expert on these but I think you have a business strike with PL qualities. I'm guessing its MS63 but I could be way off having only owned a few circulated silver trimes myself.

 

Is it possible someone could post a picture of the rims of a proof and a bu, just so I can truly understand what's different about the rims?

 

MS

From what I can see dipped,as you can see either residue or traces of original skin in the last ES of states

 

The nuts and bolts of it is that proof coins will have a squared off edge and business strike coins will have a rounded edge. Notice the rounder devices on the MS coin as opposed to the sharp squared off devices and rim of the proofs.

 

Here's a more well lit obverse shot, again no editing besides crop.

 

Thanks for all of the opinions. I'm not trying to sound ignorant, but I think the coin is extremely prroflike in hand, but I am having trouble capturing it in-camera.

 

It does have an argument that it is a PL. There are plenty of Morgans out there that I wonder why they did not get the PL designation.

 

Oh and they slabbed it as ms63

 

Thank you. I have always wondered what y'all meant by square edges and now I finally see it.

 

It's easier to see when looking at the edges, like this proof:

(Image taken from this thread: http://www.cointalk.com/t182880/ )

 

A really well struck MS coin from new dies. Quite possibly with PL surfaces. Not a proof.