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<p>[QUOTE="bzcollektor, post: 206288, member: 3241"]O mints are infamous for weak strikes. Personally, I don`t abide by the "this mint gets this grade, that mint gets another grade. I grade Morgans strictly on the "MINT STATE" condition of the coin, no matter what mint it came from. "WEAK STRIKE" softness in the hair above the ear has NOTHING to do with the MINT STATE wear and abrasion on a Morgan or any other coin. Weak Strike may affect your buying opinion based on eye appeal and marketability. This is my opinion. If you want to grade Morgans on other than wear and abrasions, then you have to base grading on the best of the best struck Morgans, which happen to be the most common and cheapest Morgans, the 1880S and 1881S. By this reasoning, all these super struck and luster S mint Morgans should grade 2 MS grades higher. .......... My avatar is an 1880S. It is a dead PL65. Only graded as an NGC MS64. I welcome other opinions..........[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="bzcollektor, post: 206288, member: 3241"]O mints are infamous for weak strikes. Personally, I don`t abide by the "this mint gets this grade, that mint gets another grade. I grade Morgans strictly on the "MINT STATE" condition of the coin, no matter what mint it came from. "WEAK STRIKE" softness in the hair above the ear has NOTHING to do with the MINT STATE wear and abrasion on a Morgan or any other coin. Weak Strike may affect your buying opinion based on eye appeal and marketability. This is my opinion. If you want to grade Morgans on other than wear and abrasions, then you have to base grading on the best of the best struck Morgans, which happen to be the most common and cheapest Morgans, the 1880S and 1881S. By this reasoning, all these super struck and luster S mint Morgans should grade 2 MS grades higher. .......... My avatar is an 1880S. It is a dead PL65. Only graded as an NGC MS64. I welcome other opinions..........[/QUOTE]
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