Morgan Preference: Frosty, Mirrored, or Toned?

Just curious what flavor of Morgan most of you prefer?
Frosty, Proof-like Mirrored, Toned, Other?

I just bought this Morgan today, it's not rare, but I loved the frosty surface. I am going to use it in my Type Set Collection.

 

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As I only have 1 raw EF40 example, I guess I'd have to say any right now lol.

Guess I'm gonna have to make that decision once I start buying slabs

 

Nice Morgan! I have examples of each, but my favorite are definitely the PL-DMPL Morgans.

 

DMPL and Frosty - not my coin, but these are cool.

 

Ooops - yes nice coin you have there. Nice clean fields in my opinion.

 

Nuff said!

 

I have about 150 slabbed ranging from MS63-MS67 and my favorites are CC's, DMPL's and toners. I would love to be able to get an MS68 Rainbow some day.

Chris

 

I've always wanted a DMPL Morgan.

 

Ditto

 

I like them frosty and blast white if they are uncirculated. But I also find them appealing in circulated grades if they are about VF20-25ish, gun-metal grey, with even, honest wear. Those coins look to me like they came right out of the pocket of a Cowboy who slapped the dollar down on the bar and asked for a shot of his favorite whiskey. I'll post a photo later.

 

Thanks for all the responses so far!

Does anyone know how each of these types formed?

Someone please correct me if I am wrong ...

I am thinking the frosty ones show some original mint luster? (some may have been dipped way back when)

The rainbow ones were from people putting them in the old blue whitman folders that had sulfer in them and caused the rainbow discoloration (esp around the edges) ... or from artificial toning

On the deep mirror proof-likes ... I am really not sure how they formed? Were some Morgan dies polished before they were minted? Somebody must know the answer to this. It's interesting but I cannot think of another series of US Coins that has so many DMPL examples. Certainly you never see them in the Peace Silver Dollar series. At least I've never seen one.

 

Nothing like a frosty white Morgan. Here are a few of mine.

 

I like them frosty and also with the light signs of toning around the rims.

 

Here's an example of what I'm talking about. Love this circulated Morgan, and not just 'cuz it's a 93S!

 

It's funny I don't care for them but yet I have more than I need/want. Since I'm color blind the toned one don't do a thing for me. The other thing I notice when I go to a show FUN or Whitman or local one's I always see thousands of them.....

 

I agree with you. Morgans look good in circulated condition, and I'd rather own a coin that derives its value from scarcity than condition.:thumb:

 

fantastic historical perspective! thanks for posting

(learn something new every day)

 

Many of the Morgans of the Treasury releases of the 60's & 70's never saw the light of day until that time. Those that came into contact with the canvas bags often had gorgeous rainbows depending on how much of the coin made contact with the bag. Some developed crescents because other coins covered parts of one another. Others developed textile rainbows revealing the weave of the bag. Of course, most of the coins away from the canvas were blast white with booming luster.

There are actually two types of DMPL's. Those that were produced from brand new dies, and those that were produced when the dies had to be polished sometime in their production life. I like to call them original DMPL's and polished DMPL's. I think it was Bowers (can't remember for sure) who said that as a general rule, the first 500 or so Morgans struck from brand new dies had a tendency to be DMPL because, both, the dies and planchets were polished prior to the onset of production. After that, the dies began to deteriorate. Oftentimes in the course of production, dies had to be polished to remove clashes or other surface anomalies, and these can be readily distinguishable by, sometimes severe, polishing lines that you can see all over the surfaces of the coin. Original DMPL's are much harder to find than polished DMPL's.

Chris

 

it's interesting ... so the old DMPL's are similar in some ways to the "first strikes" MS69's and MS70's of today (espect in the ASE series)