Best 5 Morgan dollar buys up to $500 each

Thanks for the suggestion, Cascade!

 

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Thanks, everyone, for the comments and suggestions. I'm going to talk further to my friend who was the catalyst for my post, and try to narrow the focus, and go from there.

 

Messydesk gave some good suggestions,
I will add:
1878p reverse of '79-ms64
1880o-ms63
1885s-ms63
1902p-ms65
1904p-ms63

ANY common date - ms64 DMPL (deep mirror prooflike) can be had less than $500

 

First string
*1878 CC 63
1882-84 CC 65
1887 S 63
*1901 au 55
*1903 O 62-63

 

2nd String
1878 8tF MS 63
1882 ms 65
*1886 ms 66 good looking common coin.
1889 O ms 63 a sleeper
*1891 O 1892 O ms 63
* means I highly approve.

 

Thanks, heavycam - I've added them to my list.

 

Thanks much, Mountaineer. I've taken note and added them to my list.

 

AND Adults, I like to buy slabbed for the reasons mentioned but drives me nuts I can't touch them

 

Me, too, Jintoh. I've even considered photographing them in the slabs, then cracking them out and photographing the coins with the cracked open slabs and gradings so I could have everything but the slabs' protection. But, I have resisted the temptation thus far...

 

The slabs are completely irrelevant once you've cracked them. They're raw coins again, and no way to ever prove they were in a slab. Not to a buyer.

Not that you can't shoot images sufficiently accurate to prove the raw coin is the slabbed one - heck, I teach people around here to do just that - but you can't easily post those images online in high-enough resolution to make the comparison possible, and you can't teach people how to interpret them successfully. There will always be cause for doubt.

If you're dropping $500 each on a bunch of coins, you need to remove the doubt.

 

Don't buy $500 coins then crack them out of the slab.

 

Agree -- that's why I've never done it. Just addressing the feeling/temptation, and the ambivalence relating to slabbed coins. Thanks for the comment/advice.