Does this Morgan make MS?

Vindication. YES!! :thumb:

 

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Doug , Gotcha on the extra CS , now for your question . One of the 1st things people should learn is to grade coins , But what system do you use . I'd love it if the tpgs would use ANA 6th edition standards but they don't and they pretty much set the standards used in the pricing guides , IMHO . So even though the correct grade for this coin is in the 53-55 area if slabbed it would be a 58 and sell for 58 money . As long as we know the difference and that the tpgs are market grading coins , does it really matter in the long run ? Buy the coin and not the slab .

 

ANA guide is best. Just a humble opinion.......

Just the way things should be graded.....again, one mans humble opinion.

 

You're right Ken , all my unslabbed coins are graded by the ANA standards , I'd love it if the tpgs would use it too , or at the least grade it to their own written standards . In a perfect world they would . : )

 

yeah but the ANA standard doesn't call for that to be an BU58

 

Well, mostly everything I learned about grading came from looking at hundreds of coin photos and coins in hand and from you. I'm actually better with photographs than real coins

I think now would be a good time to thank you for all that patient teaching to a very stubborn and not so quick student. Thanks.

 

Doug you helped a lot of people . If not with your dogged insistence on rereading the grading books and comparing the PCGS written standards to the ANA standards . If not for that fact alone one less person trusts the tpgs grading as correct and knowing the difference , thanks buddy .

 

OK OK.. knock it off.. You guys go and start being nice to Doug and he is gonna get a big head.. Sheesh..

I am in the low end AU group on the coin by the way.

 

Doug already has a big head , so I doubt if It could get any bigger . LOL

 

Can't turn that guy no how.....he'll always speak his mind and then give ya the facts as to why he arrives at a certain decision. Difficult indeed to fence with the sheriff when it comes to grading.....even if I don't always agree with him.

 

It is a slider. Looks circulated to me--I'd guess AU 55 or so. However, it is sometimes hard to differentiate bag marks and coin contact marks from mint bags with very minor wear. Looks a wee bit dull to me to make MS 60.