Help me grade these

Discussion in 'US Coins Forum' started by jeff_75, Jul 26, 2007.

  1. jeff_75

    jeff_75 Member

    I posted last week about my recent find. (Post title: Did I Find Anything Big?). Now that I've got a Red Book and the Bower's Expert Guide, I'm ready to start learning more. I'll start posting some pictures, and I'd appreciate any comments as to how you would grade these and why. The pictures are not the best quality because I was travelling with a small pocket digital cam and not anything good for macro work. Here's the first piece:

    1887-Morgan.jpg
     
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  3. jeff_75

    jeff_75 Member

    And the reverse:

    1887-Morgan-R.jpg
     
  4. jeff_75

    jeff_75 Member

    A few more:

    Stone-Mtn.jpg

    Indian-Head-Cent.jpg

    V.jpg
     
  5. jeff_75

    jeff_75 Member

    And finally this Morgan, which purports to be uncirculated:

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  6. mark_h

    mark_h Somewhere over the rainbow

    I want to say AU for first Morgan, MS for second morgan. G-4 details cleaned for the indian cent and I think AU on the Liberty nickel. You will note I did not put exact grades on some of them because I can't see enought details to really decide on a MS or AU grade. Anyway if I went with my first thoughts it would be AU55 for the first morgan, AU58 for the liberty Nickel, and MS63 for the last morgan. Not sure about the commemorative coin. All in all a nice bunch of coins.
     
  7. Shortgapbob

    Shortgapbob Emerging Numismatist

    I agree with Mark's grades and assesment. The Liberty nickel could very well be uncirculated or be AU-58.....it would have to be looked at in hand.

    As for the Stone Mountain commem, I would go with AU-50.
     
  8. DJCoinz

    DJCoinz Majored in Morganology

    That is a beautiful Stone Mountain commem. :thumb:
    The first morgan looks AU50, the Liberty Nickel AU58-MS, and the second morgan looks like a probably MS63 (judging by the obverse alone since you didn't post a reverse pic).
     
  9. kiwi01

    kiwi01 Senior Member

    They are great looking coins Jeff and I agree with Mark and Bob on the grades. Do you have a picture of the reverse of the Stone Mountain commem?
     
  10. Treashunt

    Treashunt The Other Frank

    The grades as posted above seem accurate, also, the Indian cent looks cleaned.
     
  11. jeff_75

    jeff_75 Member

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  12. Treashunt

    Treashunt The Other Frank

    Stone Mountain commem:
    Au--tops, possibly an XF
     
  13. bqcoins

    bqcoins Olympic Figure Skating Scoring System Expert

    1st morgan AU-53, stone mtn Au-50, IHC-g-4, lib nickel xf-45 morgan ms60
     
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