Cleaned, polished, or prooflike?

I picked up this 1978 S Morgan for a little over melt about a year and a half ago. I am in the process of itemizing everything in my SDB and took a little closer look.

It doesn't appear to me to have been cleaned but it has a mirror surface in the fields. I can stand it up on edge and see about 6-7 inches of print in the coin. I would like to say the coin is MS but I think I can see a bit of wear in the hair. The eagles breast seems weak. I can't seem to get a photo showing the mirrored fields. What are your thoughts? If it is PL, how would you grade the coin?
Thanks, Mike

 

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The lines moving in different directions signals it has been cleaned.

 

cleaned, maybe also polished

 

Can't tell from the photos........hairlines present though.

 

It would be impossible to say PL or DMPL from photos online. Only having the coin in hand would determine that by holding the coin by it's edge at the end of a ruler. If you can clearly see the reflection from 2" -4" in the fields on both sides, it would be a PL.

With that being said, I have to agree with the others, this has the appearance of having been cleaned.

 

First photo was taken while still inside of capsule. Don't know it it will appear different but this is out of plastic.

 

I vote cleaned and polished (not heavily).

 

I did the ruler, I can easily read the 2 and see about 3 or 4". My first thoughts were that it had been polished, but the fields appear too clear to me. I'll take to my trusted LCD and get a professional eyeball on it. It does have nice toning in my opinion. I had picked it from a Morgan dollar Dansco along with 2 others.

 

i agree cleaned with an older light polishing !!

 

buffed with a car polisher

 

You mean an 1878, polished with neutral Kiwi shoe polish for a spit shine.

 

Cleaned and polished. A coin that has been ruined.

 

Agree with everyone else -- cleaned and polished.

Real proof like Morgans have a very visually distinct difference between the design and devices of Miss Liberty and the field surrounding her. She's frosty, fields "black".

 

Looks like this is a remnant from the "good ole days" when everyone thought coins should be clean and shiny. Only paid melt for it so I'm OK. Except I paid melt about 2 years ago when melt was closer to $30. Now it just needs to keep on toning.

 

True PL coins have that "mirror" look, and show the cameo contrast to a degree. DMPL coins have even more of that contrast, and more reflectivity in the mirrors. Polished coins look bright, but flat and dead

 

Definitely cleaned from the scratches all over the fields.