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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;raider34, post: 1083663, member: 16402&quot;]A damaged &#039;93-S is still an expensive coin, imo, the coin looks like it has VF Details. Looking on Heritage, I can&#039;t find a Damaged/Details graded VF selling for under $2000 (most are in the $2000-$3000 range). </p><p><br /></p><p>With that said, I&#039;m not sure if the coin is genuine or counterfeit. My initial thought was counterfeit, because this is one of the most heavily counterfeited Morgan dollars (and something about it just looked off), but I can&#039;t definitely find anything that identifies it as a counterfeit. The date looks right (it lines up with the right denticles and is the right height), the mm (from the pics) looks good, and the overall details look right too. I would call it genuine, but there&#039;s one thing that bothers me,&nbsp; LIBERTY (the lettering on the obv), the details in the letters get pretty weak towards the end, and RT are barely visible. This isn&#039;t an area that is weakly struck, and even in AG examples, all letters are still clearly visible. </p><p><br /></p><p>The RT in Liberty is a very important area for the &#039;93-S, because there are two key identifiers in those letters; 2 small die gouges in the first foot of the R, and a die scratch through the middle of the top of the T. See the second pic here (<a href="http://www.vamworld.com/1893-S+VAMs" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.vamworld.com/1893-S+VAMs" rel="nofollow">1893-S</a>) for an example.</p><p><br /></p><p>Having the coin weighed is a good start, the correct weight should be very close to 26.73 grams. Counting the reeds should help too, a genuine &#039;93-S should have a edge reed count of 187. I&#039;d also check for the die markers I listed above.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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