Grade PLEASE,THANK YOU! it does not appear well in the photo but this morgan has golden tonnings. 1879P
Lots of silver dollars were used for foreign exchange, so were lots of our gold coins. I remember reading (By Q. David Bowers) that by about 1950 or so Seated dollars were pretty much exclusively used for payment of imported goods. That or eBay
VF? I say it's less than VF.The rimes are tired. Harshly cleaned,I was thinking it turned to this situation from the circualtion,so it was from cleaning... This one actually brand exported from US.:thumb: I found them here: http://www.cointalk.org/showthread.php?t=44060 Not that much in Lebanon,You can't imagine the number of counterfeit silver dollars here,Morgans,Busts,Alluminium Goloid Metrics,Trade dollars...My first buy was a counterfeit Morgan (First Morgan),it was a silver one..but I returned it to the dealer,I think the dealer is the one who counterfeit it,because one time he said: "I can fake any coin & professionals can't guess that it's fake,it can look 100% real", He told me this one time when he was talking about countrefeit coins,I think he wrongly said. I knew it from the weight,it was 24.5 grams,I told him the real one should be 26.73 grams of weight. He said:" there are different types of Morgans there are 24,26 & even 28 grams!" Only in Middle East Why this much counterfeit coins? -Because there are not that much Morgans around.Or let's say the number of Morgans are less that their collectors. -Because nobody imports Morgans from US(just Steve,click the link above to read more.) The market price is $32->$40 If you focus here: I can make good money if I order a bag of Morgan dollars from US.
The coin looks to me to have been cleaned some time ago and has since retoned over a relatively long period of time. I don't see enough detail in the photos to judge if it is "harsh" or not (or that may just be me having semantic differences), but it has the look of a cleaned coin. Respectfully...Mike
p.s. I find the coin strangely attractive, BTW, and would have no problem adding it to my collection provided it is priced commensurate to its quality -- I'm a sucker for color.
