1878 CC GTG

I thought I'd join in on the Friday guess the grade activities:

 

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Nice. My Guess MS 63

 

My first impressions too.........

 

You sir, are an impressive member.

 

VAM-2A, I think. Technical detail looks MS64 and very likely PL, but insufficient proof of the latter, of course. It's darn near impossible to prove via photography. If ANACS pops are any indication, you're in pretty rare air for the grade on this variety.

 

63PL

 

I'm learning and I've got a question about the reverse. The breast feathers almost look worn. Is it just a weak strike or is it more of a photo issue?

 

MS-64PL

 

MS-64pl

 

Everyone got this one, but Dave gets the prize because he saw the nose booger.

 

That's not even the same coin is it? Where's the gash in the field in front of the eye?

 

Not sure if serious, but the "gash" is a hairline scratch that got lit up by the light. In the latter photo the light was coming from a different angle. Also, I just took a quick pic so you could see the grade. The other photos I try to get close up and as focused as possible to make grading accurate. Either that or my grand conspiracy to deceive the guys who guessed 63

 

Maybe the red gash is a scratch in the slab. Or a reflection.

Anyway, it looks like the same coin -- but a different picture. Notice there's more reddish background in the obv field.

 

It was the first thing that stood out. Was really distracting. Only reason I guessed 63. I thought the reverse was definitely a 64 but when looking at the obverse my eye kept gravitating to that spot.

 

That's the second reverse with the sunken breast but they changed the number of tail feathers to 7. It doesn't look like a 7/8.

 

That's a real beautiful Morgan. Nice date, mm and designation.

 

I saw that scrape. Was gonna call it a 63 and almost said 62

 

Beautiful Coin!

 

Thank you for clarifying. That makes sense.

 

So, which photo portrays the coin accurately? The first shows a coin with very prominent marks on the devices of the obverse. The second one is cleaner. Both show a proof like coin, but in the first one, the grade is no better than 63, due to one very obvious and two other less obvious but significant elongated bag marks. The second shows a 64PL coin. Nicks generally don't appear and disappear in the light--they are either there, or they aren't. I think the first picture probably got the actual surface of the coin more accurately, so I will say that you lucked out with a 64 grade. Nice coin, though--great strike and proof like surfaces. Good eye appeal, but from the first picture, which is closer in and more detailed--not a 64. The only other possibility would be a slab scratch, which would not show in diffuse light.