Just Picked Up This Little Beauty

Beautiful Morgan in an old holder. Starting to tone. It looks a lot better in hand than in a picture through the plastic holder. The blemish on her cheek is on the plastic, not the coin. I'm sure it would grade higher if I resubmitted but I like the old holder, for some odd reason.

 

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Nice looking Morgan! Unless I'm missing something here, I am a little confused as to what holder this is in?? Looks like a flip to me! And weren't some of these old flips pvc prone?

 

The 1881 S Morgans were certainly the height of the minters skill and beauty.

 

What is that doing in a ICCS slab, most of purchased it from someone in Canada .........

 

Your coin is toning the same color as the paper in the flip...very typ. of silver coins stored near paper products...many pre 1959 mint sets also take on the same color as the paper backing in the sets. I call this environmental damage, but some of the coins actually look attractive. Can you remove it from the flip for better pics?

 

Iccs has it in two flip, paper in the first one and coin in the second ...

 

I'm not sure it is correct that a coin tones the same color as the paper with which it is stored. There is a color progression to tarnish.

I'd probably leave it in its current "holder" and not spend for regrading. A bump to 64 adds very little to its value and even 65 calls into question the sensibility of grading fees.

I don't know the ICCS flips. The outer one sure looks like a PVC flip. Perhaps the inner one is not.
Lance.

 

I've had a few of these and cut them out for submission to NGC. The inner pouch is heat sealed to be air tight and is a more rigid plastic. The outer pouch is also heat sealed but softer, and both sealed pouches are completely separate from the paper insert.

 

So the gold toning is a reflection in the pic. A nice oddity probably left well enough alone...and by the way, there is substantial evidence of color toning of mint sets...contact Shaunda@osv.expert for more details.

 

Looks undergraded
Maybe I should start paying more attention to any American coins I run across in these Canadian slabs

 

Very nice. Looks higher than the grade. Maybe worth a resubmission.


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I just looked up my records. I bought half a dozen ICCS "slabs" of Austrian coins, and submitted them raw to NGC. All of them got the same grade at NGC than they had on the ICCS "slabs".

 

I've got ya beat

The 1837 half Dime got UNC details at NGC- stained, ended up going AU55 at PCGS.

Wish they all worked out like this