1878 CC GSA Morgan Uncirculated Details Cleaned

It'll probably cost me a carton of cigarettes, and he'll make one holder into a shiv.

 

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So you're say McGyver already has this figured out?

 

"Where is my 1889CC?"

 

The obverse looks cleaned now that you mention the no-grade. It doesn't seem to be reflecting right on the portrait. Is that what you're seeing? I'm seeing it's a little dead, flat, there. I don't know, may just be my 20-20 hindsight.

 

Just got the coin back. Now I know why you don't see any details GSA Morgans for sale, they don't give it a ribbon. I'll just post bunch of pictures without commentary.

 

I don't think it was harshly cleaned. But I can detect some faint cleaning lines. For example, right around "P L U" in Pluribus.

Does the GSA holder say "Uncirculated" on it?

 

Yes, uncirculated.

 

I could use your help with this one. It has indicators for 19.1 but no crud around the E. I wonder what it really is. I have it for sale on Ebay right now. Someone messaged me, I wonder if he's on this board. He said they could have used an eraser on the obverse, which never occurred to me. What GSA employees were erasing coins? That would be an interesting history.

 

I have heard all sorts of stories, some may well be "urban legends." Erasers have been mentioned as a possibility--GSA employees were under pressure to get the coins to market, and supervisors could have said "clean them up." I wasn't kidding the other night--I did hear that supposedly, shirt sleeves were used to polish off surface grit. If either of those were truly the case (and there is no reason to believe not, as the coins were literally shoveled into containers when liberated from their vault hiding places and mint bags), damage and abrasion could have taken place. The process was relatively unsupervised, so anything could have happened--remember, in the 1950s and 1960s, cleaning of coins was the social norm.

 

I really want to see this movie. It doesn't look like they did anything but "carefully" sort them according to how Pittman and Carter told them.


Edit: There you go, it was probably those gloves!

 

They are wearing gloves, but running their fingers all over the coin. I think that says a lot. While it won't cause fingerprints, it will certainly wipe the surfaces. Nobody is holding the coins by the edges.

 

And that was the promo video. Who knows what really went on. They sorted 3 million coins.

 

Think shovels and wheel barrows.