About a week ago, I noticed this trade dollar at auction on eBay....
I'm going with 55, you can see some light wear on the high points and loss of field luster, I think.
I don't know much about Morgans, but that's a really well struck coin. grade.. I'll guess 62 because of the scuffs/scrape on the left obv.
tried to post a larger image of the upper rev. but no luck.
I missed the post about the subject coin's weight. If the scales are accurate, a trade dollar with EF details should weigh about 27g. My raw EF...
I've given up trying to grade proofs from photos, because the grade depends on hairlines, and on proofs they usually only show at certain angles.
I just went through 4 pages of 1873 trade dollars in the Heritage archives, all of the 73-P's had at most the broken top of the E in UNITED, none...
larger image of right obv field as requested: [ATTACH]
[ATTACH] you can see multiple broken letters and missing serifs in the lettering. My raw 73P has just the broken E in UNITED. Few dies were made...
That's a fair point. I have not seen a trade dollar yet with signs of die rust in the fields. CAn't say for sure it never happened but I have...
here's an enlargement of the talon area, the original photo was somewhat unsharp, and with the increase in image size detail was lost. [ATTACH]...
[ATTACH] this is a fake that I bought a few years back on eBay. note the small metal blobs scattered around.
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