1895 S Morgan Dollar With Pictures , Estimated Value

Hello, I have a 1895 S Morgan dollar as pictured, can anybody estimate the grade / value of coin?

Would getting it graded professionally
help raise the value I can get from selling it?

Any advice or comments appreciated thank you.

 

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AU Details, harshly cleaned.

The coin is not going to straight grade so I don't think having it graded would help.

 

Its brutally cleaned and/or polished, but it is a pretty scarce coin. Certifying it would confirm authenticity.
A lot of collectors will pass on this coin, but it might be worth a few hundred dollars if you can find the right buyer.

 

This is true...but it's also not an overly faked coin. I don't know that you would make back the cost of having it authenticated.

 

ANACS doesn't cost much, and might be a fit for a coin like this. JMO.

 

All morgans are heavily faked. If you are going to buy a Morgan over $100 and don't know what you are doing, you should buy certified. Better answer is to learn what you are doing, but many people simply refuse I guess.

 

That coin has really been cleaned, harshly I might add.

 

All I did was put a few drops of water and rub it with my shirt, wanted to bring out the shine. How much does that effect value?

 

Um, you might want to be sitting down when people answer that question. Depends on if it was problem free before you worked it over. But please, don't clean coins if you don't know what you're doing.

 

Bad move. Even a cotton ball or a q-tip will damage a coins surface and that lowers the value.

 

By how much do you think? I uploaded pics of it before

 

What material was the shirt made of, steel wool?

 

It had scratches all over so I wouldn't be interested in adding that coin to my collection. I'd be looking for something that had less damage even if it was more worn. Shame as that's a nice date.

 

haha, no it cotton man . can you check the 2 pics above your post and tell me what you think of difference?

 

My point is...this coin isn't any more faked than any other Morgan. The most common problem with these is a removed mint mark. I personally don't see a lot of upside in submitting this coin for grading.

 

I posted 2 pictures of the coin before i cleaned it. i keep hearing its harshly cleaned, can you look at the pre pictures and tell me what you think please

 

I got what you meant, but my point is if I were a collector for a rarer Morgan date, and what was offered looked very much out of the ordinary, I would immediately be wary in this environment. I would be concerned it was a fake because it looked "different". Now, if said coin was in a slab but ungraded, at least I have confidence it is authentic, if cleaned.

I am thinking a slab is the difference between say a $200 sale and NO SALE, not adding to the sale price really.

 

Even before it was scrubbed...it still looks to have an old cleaning. I'm going to say AU Details even then...but it's worse now and thus would appeal to fewer buyers.

 

I get it. I still think this coin sells raw.

 

Sure. I think it still has a market but as a cleaned coin. Understand this about cleaning. The scratches are distracting. But mint state coins have scratches too, and cuts and bruises. The big deal with the cleaning is it imparts a deadened, two-dimensional, flat look to the coin, from removing the mint luster. That’s like taking the sparkle out of a diamond and reducing it to the look of a piece of glass. And this is the thing about luster. Once it’s gone, it’s gone for life, and there’s no getting it back. And yet, it’s the “life” of a coin. It’s what gives the coin bounce, liveliness. That’s the best I’m going to try to explain it here. But that’s it, in a nut, why you don’t want to clean coins.