1888 Morgan with which looks like a Die Crash!

He might consider submitting it to John aka @messydesk for his attribution service.

 

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Sure, he could do that. I guess it depends on what he wants as an end result.

 

This might be VAM 24A, but it might not be. There were two clashes, with die rotation between them, and they seem to be in the right place for it, but I can't be sure. 1888 isn't as thoroughly documented as some other dates. As others have said, the coin is heavily polished. Whichever VAM this is doesn't come with a value premium.

 

Nope! I have been very careful not to do anything with these. Just a little story about this coin. about 4 years ago, my wife and I love collecting antiques. So we went into an antique store here in Phoenix. and I bought about (9) Morgans.

Two that have zero scratches, (this is one of them) and the other is an 1890 P that has a little polish die lines on the face, and an almost 365 degree die crack on the reverse connecting the letter on the outside of the edge going through the United States of America.

One of the other coins has what's known as a Micro "S" and also on the reverse is a flat top tail feather at the end of the arrows. I will post that one separately as well.

(2) has a die chip in the "G" on the reverse in God. One of these coins has two spikes coming out of the eye. one spike high on the eye and the other one low on the eye.

 

Well, I was also concerned about it being polished. But when I looked at the inside of the lettering, it has the same consistency as the open areas.

When a coin is polished, the flat areas, outside of the lettering are shinny and the inside of the lettering is dull because it is hard to polish that inside within the letters and they have the same. That is leading me to believe that it is not polished.

But we shall see. I would think that if it was polished, some of these die clashed would disappear. But again, the only way to know for sure is to have it graded. Wish me luck!

 

You were given sound advice about this coin, and wishing you luck isn't going to change the fact that it's polished. I highly recommend spending the grading money on something else.

 

@PassthePuck, would appreciate it if you return with the results if you do send it for grading but I think the call is right, polished. Not the whole coin, her head, the numbers and letters and the stars, all the high points look polished, not the low spots.

 

Nice find.