As the 1900-O is not at all a rarity, I'd lean pretty definitively toward a well circulated example such as that as being authentic.
This might be one of those tricky risk versus reward calculations. Researching completed auctions for NGC/PCGS MS graded examples (needn't be the...
Welcome to CoinTalk For a coin of this age in mint state (as it appears to be), there's a strong probablity of its having been at least dipped...
Welcome to CoinTalk. When a Morgan dollar was new, its specified weight was 26.73 grams with a tolerance of about tenth of a gram in either...
Yes, but it's just easier to characterize the degree of frost on the devices of a coin like this in those terms.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] A couple of final photos - as I said earlier, not an ultra cameo, devices are frosty relative to the field but not deeply so,...
I hadn't noticed those lip dings for sure, you're absolutely correct in pointing them out. I guess I was dazzled by how clean the cheek area is,...
I think those bluish areas are a reflection of the shirt I was wearing. It's a white coin for sure, and really attractive, better as I said, than...
For whatever reason, my computer decided to post this before I was done with the poll, and I don't see how to edit it. Maybe one of the...
There are some tiny black spots on the face that don't show up on the photo. At least that sssures me it hasn't been dipped recently. But as to...
On a whim, in between errands yesterday I stopped at a pawn shop whose practice with regard to Morgans, is that if they're slabbed and graded, out...
Precisely my point. I was responding to earlier posts that suggested it was post mint handling that accounted for "baggy" looking coins.
I've seen slabbed ASE's marked "first strike" or "early releases" (so they supposedly shouldn't have been handled much, if at all) that had...
As a category, this is one of the more common mint errors that is encountered. They don't command too much of a premium, especually if the coin...
Thank you, Twiggs. For some reason, the Google books link I had found wasn't getting me to a page that downloaded well. I should be good to go now.
That seems about right, but I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't a "details" annotation for the scratches.
I can't seem to find the website for Riddell's 19th century catalog of early 8 reales cap and rays varieties (including fakes) - I believe it's...
I normally don't brag on that point, and I actually "bundled" it with a couple of other Mexican silver pieces (like Frank on American Pickers) -...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] An 1867 Mo, the variety in general not regarded as an uncommon coin, but I still don't see all that many of them, Seller had...
[ATTACH] I'll start this off with the above German 100 Mark denomination dating to 1908. I don't know who the centrally depicted woman is...
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