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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim M, post: 375405, member: 4791&quot;]OK, here is my take on this coin and the reason I posted it here.</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree with the grade that NGC has assigned, PCGS gave it the same grade if that makes anyone feel better.&nbsp; The coin in hand is pretty much as it appears in the pictures. </p><p><br /></p><p>The reason the coin was posted here was for education, I have seen VF to 64 given to the coin. Does it look like a typical vf coin, yes it does to some eyes and I can not argue what those eyes see. </p><p><br /></p><p>For grins and giggles I took this coin to a show over the weekend, Showed it to several &quot;dealers&quot;.&nbsp; It served its purpose for me well.&nbsp; It showed me which dealers can be trusted, which dealers can actually, GET THIS... grade a coin.&nbsp; Some of the older dealers stated they did not disagree with the grade but it wasn&#039;t a coin they felt would move very fast. (Honest)&nbsp; Others gave me the boy, NGC blew it big time with this coin offering bullion for it. (I bet it would sit in their showcase for sale and never see a bullion dealer)</p><p><br /></p><p>Now to clearify. I am not a professional coin dealer, grader or anything like that. I am just your average Joe who happens to collect coins and likes to study them, I have for over 40 years. I have one completed set of Morgans and 5 away from my second set.&nbsp; Also a few thousand extras.</p><p><br /></p><p>I purchased this coin because of the strike, the colors and the grade assigned to it by a top tpg.&nbsp; Wasnt an expensive purchase and certainly has weeded out the dealers that I will deal with at shows.&nbsp; : )&nbsp;&nbsp; How many would pay a few bucks to be able to do that?????</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin in hand is a 64, weakly stuck yes.. toning that is less than appealing yes.&nbsp; are there better examples out there? yes. Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder they say. Have the TPG&#039;s overgraded coins? YES.&nbsp; &nbsp; Now being honest, I would not have touched this coin had it not been in a slab. Those that know me know that I am not a slab collector, However, I do own several and have had some slabbed.</p><p><br /></p><p>This my friends is the David Copperfield coin in my collection, Fools 90% of the people 100% of the time. </p><p><br /></p><p>We as collectors have become accustomed to the blast white Morgans.&nbsp; This should raise some eyebrows...&nbsp; I would venture to say that 80+% of which have taken the proverbial bath along the way. </p><p><br /></p><p>Happy collecting, learn something today about coins that you can share tomorrow with somebody else.&nbsp; As GD says... knowledge, share it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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