GTG: 1880s Morgan Dollar

I said I was going out on a grading limb. My thought was the maybe the graders were not able to read print when reflected at the required distance in the heavily polished reverse field. (thinking this may have been a grading fail by PCGS)

 

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They don’t do the print test. That is strictly an amateur trick. You can read print from 8 inches away on a lustrous non-Prooflike Morgan just as well as you can with a Prooflike one.

 

MS-65 PL

 

66

 

Getting warmer.

 

Well, some got close, but nobody got the exact combination. Pictures do not do it justice. As per always, pictures make the striations look gigantic, and once again, images do not do PL and DMPL coins well. This is one amazing coin, and uncommon in this grade.

 

wow I was going to say its probably higher than my 65 but I thought she was DMPL in the first set . Generally speaking to TPG'S are tougher on 78-82's it seems like. I have a 65 that looks both prooflike or very close to it and MS-66

 

LOL....

 

To me it should've got DMPL but I think they sacrificed that and gave it a 67 with PL instead of something like say 66 with DMPL and im not surprised about it getting a 67 beautiful coin overall.

 

I think it is borderline on DMPL. It is a hard coin to grade, as it is in the realm where few Morgans fall. The intense die polish throws off a lot of people on pictures, as it looks as if they are scratches, and they aren’t. The surfaces are really clean for a high grade PL coin, but it is a difficult coin to grade accurately. I think they got it right.

 

Very nice. This time I got the PL but I said 65.

 

That’s quite a coin!

 

I voted 67 DMPL before scrolling down.

 

You were the closest.

 

Considering the lack of bag marks on the bust or hairlines in the PL fields it is an awesome coin foe sure!

 

It may be the nicest Morgan I have ever owned. It isn’t only the grade, as I have owned 68s, but this one is just incredibly special.

 

Hello, I am new here and new to collecting all together. I have a coin that was given to me by my father and was hoping to get any information I could. It's a 1885 -O Morgan and I will try to add a photo. Thank you in advance for any help.

 

I suggest you start your own thread and provide pictures.1885 O is a very common date with a mintage of around 10 million but its all about condition.Most of them do remain in MS condition because most didn't even make it out of the bags or banks until the mid 1900'S.

 

I thought I saw hits on the cheeks & went with a low ms63 PL. But, the comments I've read since suggest I may have gone a bit below the mark.