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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2481895, member: 1892&quot;]And a wonderful MLB-worthy curveball it was. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>My first impression upon looking at the image was, &quot;Golly, I gotta be careful about what the imaging process did to distort this one.&quot; The &quot;look&quot; was completely inappropriate....<i>except for a circulated PL</i>, in which case the image was pretty accurate indeed. Never even considered that, they&#039;re too rare. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>1895-O is - by my usual measure, percentage of Heritage offerings - vanishingly rare in PL/DMPL, one of the rarest in the series. Heritage has 3343 records of 1895-O sales, and <b>only 31 of those</b> were for PL/DMPL examples. PCGS Auction Prices lists 4707 sales (including Heritage results), and <b>only 43</b> were PL/DMPL.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin <i>should</i> have a reserve well above what was bid.</p><p><br /></p><p>Found an interesting piece in my research for this post:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://coins.ha.com/itm/morgan-dollars/silver-and-related-dollars/1895-o-1-au55-prooflike-ngc/a/1222-4302.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.ha.com/itm/morgan-dollars/silver-and-related-dollars/1895-o-1-au55-prooflike-ngc/a/1222-4302.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515" rel="nofollow">http://coins.ha.com/itm/morgan-dollars/silver-and-related-dollars/1895-o-1-au55-prooflike-ngc/a/1222-4302.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://coins.ha.com/itm/morgan-dollars/silver-and-related-dollars/1895-o-1-au58-prooflike-ngc/a/1225-3449.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://coins.ha.com/itm/morgan-dollars/silver-and-related-dollars/1895-o-1-au58-prooflike-ngc/a/1225-3449.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515" rel="nofollow">http://coins.ha.com/itm/morgan-dollars/silver-and-related-dollars/1895-o-1-au58-prooflike-ngc/a/1225-3449.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515</a></p><p><br /></p><p>NGC AU55PL in July, AU58 PL in October, and highly questionable either way.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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