Guess the Grade - Morgan Silver Dollar

This is a tuff one. The strike says au but the color says ms. Could it be friction wear on an uncirculated coin that bag toned? Or could it be a decent job of AT on a cheap date au morgan? Or option 3, a slider 81s was quickly dipped to strip surfaces then the coin was left to naturally quick tone with others stacked like you just line dumped a roll of ase's (causing the huge crecent as the person wanted the coins semi elevated as they sat)

For toning like that to occur naturally the surfaces need to be fresh and unmolested from circulation and finger oils etc. An au coin shouldn't tone like that without some type of "help"

Gun to my head I'd go with my option 3 or a variant of it

 

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63

 

AU 58+

 

I'm at 58. If they called it ms is a 64

 

It's an AU 58. Maybe it's the photo, but I personally thought this one was a 63 and that the toning looks market acceptable.

 

Nice coin.

 

I was going to call it a 63 before reading your post. It made me look twice. Good call. The rub is there.

 

I'm still skeptical about the straight grade but anacs is pretty darn good with morgans. I'd still be curious and probably crack and sub to pcgs to see what they say just for kicks. Interesting 81s for sure!

 

It's not worth it. By the time you paid the fees with shipping & insurance, you'd probably be in the hole.

Chris

 

Much agreed. It would be for fun not profit. Can't a guy get his kicks on route 66, er, route 81s

 

If nothing else, if you/when you do go to sell it, the PCGS plastic will make it easier to sell.