I started collecting coins circa 1988. In the late 1980's early 1990's I got a box of coins from my parents. My Grandmother had died in 1986 (my Grandfather died before I was born), and I guess the box of coins from her estate had just been sitting around somewhere in my Father's closet afterwards. I have no idea which of my Grandparent's collected coins, or potentially it was both of them. The coins were pretty much what you would expect, circulated examples of common date coins. Still it was a nice smattering of this and that. Like an idiot I sold off all the Large Cents, as I wasn't collecting them at the time. They were pretty well circulated, I'd say AG3 to VG8 for the most part from what I can remember. I did at least put the proceeds back into other coins. Over the years I've posted various coins from the collection. Anyhow, once I got into collecting space memorabilia I started looking for fun less expensive ways to collect coins, and after working on Dansco Franklin and Washington albums I found sticking a coin in a Dansco hole was a satisfying endeavor. Given that, I decided to do a DATE run of Morgans. So, I started looking through the Morgans, and here are some of them. The half dollars and dollars of my Grandparent's collection I had I put in brown paper bags and tossed them in a drawer circa 1990. A lot of them have toned up, some pleasantly, some not so nicely. The 1899-O was in a clip together hard plastic 2 X 2, hence it's whiteness. The images were done by Bob Campbell, and I think he did an excellent job.
Nice group of EF-AU Morgans. I'll bet the whole set will look pretty cool, if they all have that much eye appeal. Bob sure does take nice pictures, doesn't he? What's up with the surfaces on the 99O? Looks like she took a bath too many times.
@Skyman Sy, I had an 1899-O with the same reverse crack around the perimeter except that mine was a later die state. The way the crack shifts from the bottom of some letters to the top of others is exactly the same. The biggest difference with the one I had was that the crack ran through the tips of the wings. That's why I believe it was an LDS of yours. Chris
Ain't that the truth. What I find really remarkable is this LDS die pair shows no sign of a clash event. Quite the rarity for the Nawlins mint.
