1903 P Morgan Dollar with Nice MS Details but Ugly Eye Appeal - Worth Grading?

Hey, you posted the coin, i didn’t. It is unattractive. Not much to make it better looking. Just leave it the way it is—it is not going to get any better.

 

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Did one final Acetone bath. Seems to look a lot better.

 

Nice job. Great improvement.

 

Cool!

 

Why so negative?

 

Gotta have a thicker skin. Not everyone has to like it. You made it look 100% better, but if it's grade worthy, it's an MS62 at best. Not a 66 like you had hoped. Still, you did a good job conserving it. And it's probably worth $60 to someone now.

 

Thanks. With all the dirt and PVC, it was hard to tell at first whether it was high MS or low MS. And I have plenty thick skin, I just like calling people out who are unnecessarily negative.

 

I am not unnecessarily negative. You have to be realistic about coins. Even thinking this coin was a gem coin, is totally unrealistic. I think, based on my years of collecting Morgans, that it is an AU coin. There is very slight wear in the high spots. You did clean it up, but the coin is lacking in luster as well. Got to be honest, and keep this real.

 

Acetone did a world of difference. A slider 58/62. Not worth grading but better

 

Great job! I’d soak it in acetone again, because there’s still some of that black stuff that was obviously crud that came off in the previous soaks. Keep doing it until you don’t notice any difference. All you have to lose is some acetone.

It actually looks like there are some decent surfaces there compared to what I was expecting. However, I would not get this coin certified, but it could definitely make a nice album coin, or you could pop it in an air-tite and call it good.

 

As a normal, I'm not used to seeing a coin clean up this well with just acetone. It's great to see someone do things in the proper order and have positive results.
Too often, folks reach for an acid dip, and kill the coin.
More could be done to improve the looks of the coin but I don't feel it's worth the risk for most folks to play with.

 

He's just giving his honest opinion in a matter of fact manner. Now, if he'd said "hey you dirty so and so, your coin is ugly", i could see a problem, but he didn't. He thinks the coin is ugly, and said so, and so what?

 

Even the OP called the coin ugly. I'm good with honest opinions.

 

I never understood going straight to a dip, when distilled water, acetone, or xylene sometimes help and literally cannot damage the surfaces of a silver coin. It’s like going straight to surgery when diet and exercise can do the job. It baffles the mind that people jump to harsher methods first thing.