Arrange for some high-quality imaging, so you don't have to send them the coin, or put it in the hands of one of the expert columnists.
A typical 1921 Morgan of subdued luster, scanned: [ATTACH] A Morgan NGC judged PL, scanned: [ATTACH]
Well alrighty then. :D
Very nicely written. Real-world "rarity" is inconsequential. "Rarity" happens when demand means people are willing to pay more than you're...
Pretty reasonable for you both, as long as you didn't lose money. :)
The same could be said of children. :P
Scans are as good as, or better than most, images at objectively communicating the technical details of a coin. Depth, not so much - some...
I'll take your word for it. You're the chemist. :)
Yes. I tend to be obscure when I'm typing quickly. :) A random sampling of some of my images of 1921's - I have about 200 different coins in my...
I don't know about @Cascade, but I've been trying with a fair bit of success (occasional breaks of a month or so for real life) to look at every...
You can find tailfeather conditions all over the map with all Morgans, and 1921's are no exception. Indeed, the fact that this is such a...
Well, it would still have sat there for 196 years. :p If we assume it's a Randall Hoard coin, it's rather astonishing that it sat in the ground...
Seated coins are difficult, Eduard, and there's no blame in feeling challenged when evaluating one. Strike quality varies widely and may be...
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I feel kind of the opposite - I'd have preferred it pristine, struck from fresh blanks. Not that there's any sense of historic loss of a...
I was going to wax poetic about the brutality of the assigned grade, until I looked at fifteen or so auction result images. Basically couldn't...
That's the term which has been adopted to describe what you see - the "ghost" of the old coin. Personally, I'm ambivalent about it.
Briggs-1A, one of two die pairs known for the date. It's characterized by the date repunching you've shown, as well as the circular "compass...
It doesn't get much better than that, man. Could have left the Mint yesterday. :)
Agreed, killer. I lean towards "struck thru a delamination." You can envision a ready-to-delam planchet being snipped off nicely by the edges of...
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