If that looks cleaned to you, remind me not to hire your maid service!
Back to the OP (since I'm joining late), I was thinking ms63 & ms62. Seems the slab was a little inflated over my opinion.
Trust me, it's not fun. I just priced a bunch of coins for an estate sale this weekend. About half of the items (mostly state quarters in third...
Based on Liberty's face and the gouges at her hip, it looks like I'm the toughest judge so far (I voted for MS-61).
For their value in silver, you can probably find nicer coins. Even nicer other Morgans. The local gold & silver place has bins of "cull" Morgans...
Better pics (sorry, that dark carbon silver is tough to focus on):
Really? With dings as minor as those? Ok. Which details grade would you assign?
This Morgan has a pair of minor rim dings at 7:00 and some chatter on Liberty's chin. Plus, the toning is rather dark. Would the rim dings factor...
I'm not the greatest at VAM attribution, but I noticed something interesting going on at this one at the same point that there's a die break on...
PM coming soon. Thanks for handling this!
Agreed. I think this was the coin in the batch that convinced me to try out a few cleaning techniques. It was like seeing mud splashed on a Rembrandt.
I think the luster is unaffected. The photos were taken with artificial light instead of daylight though.
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Another 8 hours of distilled water with lemon juice is starting to reach diminishing returns: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
3 hours of lemon infused distilled water shows continued signs of improvement. I changed the water for the 2nd 90 minutes: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
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Some improvement after 30 minutes in diluted lemon juice: [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Starting another coin with lemon juice. 1 cap full to 1/2 cup of distilled water. Here are the before pics: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] And after 10...
5 days of distilled water (or is it 6 now?) and I'm seeing diminishing returns from additional soaking:
Ive got to be just missing this in my Krause catalog... can anyone help me ID this 25mm ish coin (roughly US quarter sized)? Thanks! [ATTACH]...
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