New Commemorative - 1900 $1 Lafayette PCGS MS-63

I'm in the process of upgrading my Early Commemoratives set to MS.
So this coin will replace my existing AU-58 and help reduce my cost of the new coin.

 

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Photos?

 

("Drag and Drop" is giving me grief -- but I'll get used to it.)

 

That's a quite nice Lafayette. Here's mine graded MS-61 by ANACS.

 

Hard one to get and still missing from my collection. Nicely done.

 

Not bad for a 61! Why the low MS grade? Light cleaning? Hairlines? Wear?

 

I've always wondered why the Lafayette commem was the only dollar commemorative until the 1983 Olympic issue for the 1984 Olympics. I do know that they sold them for either $2 or $5 each so they couldn't have sold too many of them.

 

I could never quite understand it myself. I thought it looked better than a 61. And i don't think it's a slider but maybe some here can read it better than I can. If you think it's a slider, let's here it.

Sorry, @kanga, if this borders on hi-jacking your thread. Will stop if you say so.

 

No problem.
I find that I often learn new info from add-ons.

 

I don't understand the grade. That scrape on Washingtons neck would bother me.

 

It caused me a bit of grief until I looked at it with my 9x loupe.
The scratches are on the slab.

 

With the exception of the neck scratches it's a very nice coin. Thanks for sharing Kanga.

 

When I first saw this thread I thought - how is that MS61? The thought I had is that they were tougher on it because it's a commemorative, similar to my understanding of how they approach proof coins.

I ran into lots of mint correspondence on these while researching something else. Here is a lot of hand-wringing over how to do the accounting for them - are they really US dollars, or what?
https://archive.org/details/rg104entry229box107/page/n143/mode/2up

And this one on price gouging sounds very familiar, from 121 years ago...
https://archive.org/details/rg104entry229box108/page/n153/mode/2up