PCGS guess the grade Morgan $

C-B-D , Beautiful coin , what would you grade her in hand ?

 

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I would have bought the coin as a MS 63 with that pretty toning. I just plain don't see the rub, but evidently the TPG does see it that way.

 

I see a very very slight rub in-hand, where the lighter toned areas of the hair is... but I'm not familiar with Morgans as much as I need to be. Trying to learn. The eagle breast feathers are a bit weak for uncirculated IMO, but that may be a strike element for the date. I grabbed it up at $41. No brainer at that price.

 

No argument with the price, but I will give you your first hint on grading. Weak breast feathers have absolutely nothing to do with being uncirculated. The breast could be dead flat and still be uncirculated - so long as they were not worn flat. The strike (i.e. breast feathers) cannot make a coin circulated. For instance http://www.cointalk.com/threads/guess-the-grade-576-new.237374/#post-1800133

 

Are you going to do any Bust halves ? And $41 I'd buy them all day long if they looked like that . Nice pick up .

 

WHAT ?????!!!

Crack it out and get it REGRADED! And KEEP sending it back until the give you a 62! It's a 62, dang it.

(just kidding) Back to reading the descriptions in Making the Grade....

Attractive coin, regardless of grade.

 

Great example !!!!!

 

Great pick-up at that price. You don't want it, I'd buy it from you, and just out of curiosity, I'd send it to NGC on a crack out. I bet it would return back as MS. lol

 

I went to my first "large" coin show a few weeks ago - did a lot of listening. I always thought when the coin is graded at say, PCGS, that more than one person (grader) inspected the coin. From listening to multiple dealers I now understand that ONE person does the grading... My assumption was a few graders looked at a coin.

Is this accurate information?

 

NO. Multiple graders give their opinion and then if there is a disagreement, another grader comes in as a tie-breaker to make it final.

 

I agree.

 

Do the graders "see" who submitted the coin? As I've aged, my rose colored glasses have become extremely tinted... Are there safeguards against preferential treatment or, in a worse case scenario, flat out corruption?

 

to late

 

Wow, great buy at $41. I thought AU58, because I see a small rub in the cap and on her hair above her forehead.