1884 O Morgan MS66

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Nice O mint piece.

 

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such a sharp strike, what a beauty.

 

Paul,

My thoughts were the same as yours, the coin has the best strike I have ever seen on an 1884 O... ever... and I submit 500 or more dollars a year. I bought the coin raw from a dealer at FUN who thought it was a 65... but I thought it had a strong shot as a 66. The coin has about twice as much luster as the picture shows. Currently I have a slew of super dollars at NGC. I recently bought some of the absolutely nicest dollars I have ever seen... and even for the date they are monsters (80S, 81S, 82S) I am shooting for my first 67, or even an 68... they are just that nice... I will post some pictures of those when I get them back.

 

those photos aren't nearly enough to judge by....


here is a wild wild guess.

the top two

 

I can't even believe that the lower one was a 66

 

I am sorry but I do not collect my Morgans on Guesses - too me its absolutely obvious which is which but I also have 100 or so Morgans
to compare and purchase. I use a grading set similar to the above whic is pretty accurate

 

You know what's a real shame? That you couldn't have done that with an 87-O

 

too each their own. I only have about 50 morgans and would never purchase a coin from those photos at the 66 grade level.

Ruben

 

Got a 86 and an 88 .. the 6 is an AU though

 

I agree with Ruben and Doug. Top right and bottom left and I also would not purhase Morgans from those photos. It is not that they are bad, they just don't show the full surface of the coins because of inadequate lighting.

PS: I own 90 Morgans and all but one are rainbow toned. The only reason I own one that isn't toned is because it is from the Great Falls Collection.

 

I am familiar with your coins Lehigh96 and they are gorgeous from what I have seen in the past..

Somehow my point got lost .. the coins I own were used as a grading set to form "my opinion" of the grade of the OP pictured coin. It was not inferrred as to wether these coins pictures (mine) were acceptable pictures in order to purchase. ( In fact it was a follow up on Lehigh96 suggestion that we needed more examples which I supplied and got the OP permission to do so soas not to side track his post )
These are obvious inadequate pictures for the purpose of purchase.
regards

 

:hatch:I think that is a great coin. I only have a lowly toned one in 63 grade. I agree the scratch above the 4 must not be as obvious as in the pic. If not I think you got a bump, but they owe a lot of bumbs as CAC is causing chronic downgradiness syndrome which is completely lame.

 

Really nice strike. Did you take those pictures? They're very professional-looking.

 

As a follow up to my grading set
1882o MS64
1883o MS66
1884o MS66
1885o MS65 ( This is the one I used as my "similar coin" as the OP with the one distracting mark near its forehead )

Very good eye you two that got them correct even with my bad pictures

 

did Doug get them BOTH wrong????

 

Gotcha beat, I got tons of rolls, and I don't know what's in them

Probably 21s if I ever opened them to look. Actually ISTR seeing a 1902 date on one of them.

 

beautiful.

 

is my family in your will yet.

The kids are:

Talyah Leah
Shoshana Rivka
Dovid Shimon
Itka Shira
Aviva Rochel and
Shcnuel-Leib Eliezar

if you need they're dates of births and SS#'s I'm PM them

 

Yes, I took those pictures. They actually aren't my best effort... But I was happy enough