This coin changed colors in the 5 years that I’ve had it. Stored with all my others coins so there must have been something on the coin. Anyway, it’s an 1885-O Morgan Dollar. Difficult to get the deeper colors but here she is. A slight but annoying scrape between her nose and the E that barely is on the surface and a deeper hit by her chin. The obverse is mostly blue to greenish blue with some red to orange on the right side. The reverse is completely toned a light reddish to orange to golden color. Not bad looking for a low price coin.
Nice looking coin. I have the same thing, this one is going all sorts of colors when the rest are subtle in their changes
Nice 85-O...the "slight...scrape" looks like an open laceration or fissure in photo...I'm sure it's not that bad...photos can both help and hinder appearances. Otherwise looks pretty good in terms of marks, a very smooth face and fields overall.
Not sure how to describe it. Kinda like a brush burn. Your skin is red and scraped but you don’t bleed.
FTR, I was being serious. I have used the description for 40 years. The Balmoral Reds and Chartreuse and Seafoam and Taupe and Magenta and the rust combinations of orange red and brown that form the family of mottled rust colors are gorgeous and the mottling adds to the attractiveness. I have always been a fan. I guess I am getting old. Along the years, I have seen the pattern described as blotchy or speckled, but I never thought these descriptions do a mottled rust colored coin justice. A lot of 21D Morgans have this. I recall a Morgan specialist attributing it to die basining differences and acid baths and metallurgy differences. I don't know, because I never took a deep dive to find out. I just know I like the look, when it is the right color combo. Your example fits the criteria of my like column.
Dave… I am really struck by the super flat surfaces on the fields of that Morgan. I am not a tones coin type guy, but I wonder if those super flat fields would qualify that one for a PL designation…. I know that PL has everything to do with reflectivity, but I swear I wouldn’t expect to see fields like that unless it were a proof strike….. But then I am not a Morgan aficionado either. I may be way off base.
Thanks Randy. It is a wonderful looking coin. I’m just concerned about those few marks on it. It’s been packed for 5 years and was in one of those many boxes I’m slowly getting to.
