Just arrived today, the favorite in my collection so far. It has a very interesting history, once surpassing the 1889 CC in rarity, it still is a very desirable and sought after issue in any grade.
IT's a fake and that grader for that company is acting as a double agent, i am just kidding great looking coin, awesome as a matter of fact.
I still haven't perfected (obviously) taking slabbed coin pics with a digital camera. I have to take like 20 to get 5 I like. The one in the slab is awful, but I wanted to show the CAC sticker and what PCGS graded it.
I usally take a bunch and delete the ones i don't like after they upload, i have 2 that graded ms-64, if u look on ebay at the commen morgans, they don't start taking off price wise until u get a ms-65, i would hang on to it as long as i could.
I was just about to type that I think your photos are getting better. My only suggestions are that your light appears to be incandescent and at too low of an angle. Try using florescent bulbs with the light shining straight down. If you are using two lamps, place them at 10 & 2. For one lamp, place it at 12 o'clock. The clarity and focus are really pretty good. BTW, Nice Coin. I love a premium gem Morgan Dollar.
Very clean coin, nice Morgan Jim :thumb:. I agree the '03-O has a great history, good thing you didn't buy it 60 years ago .
It's just the lighting, the coin is blast white without any toning. Here is the pic from the website of the company I bought it from:
was $840 with shipping... not a steal, but not too bad. It has the highest points of all my 66 Morgans on NGC's set registry by far.
Actually, you did good, not a steal like you said, but good. My main dealer I do business with has a MS-66 03-O for $940, so $100 less is a good deal.
Can you adjust your camera's white balance? That should yield a more accurate color. The base of my copy stand is a neutral gray, so that's what I set the balance on. Comments about adjusting light position are right on; Glare from the slabs is a very annoying problem, and it's easy to miss it when you are concentrating on the coin itself. That's a great looking coin, nary a mark on 'er.
