I was browsing Heritage Barber dimes and ran across this 1900-S. Excessive die polish probably related to the die crack through the bust, but I'd not seen this on the obverse before and thought it was interesting. The reverse also has the "floating corn leaf" but that's fairly common in my observation.
Nice, attractive and neat. I have a few of the reverse polished dies, but I don't recall any obv ones. What grade is it? My best of that date/MM is a [raw] MS 62, PL
It's a PCGS MS65, currently being auctioned on Heritage. Funny, it didn't take me long to find another one in Heritage archives from the same die pair. Same crack through the right bust, 0 through the left bust to left ribbon, faint one from F through the hair to E in Liberty. Same cracks in the reverse (several of them). Also PCGS MS65, this one CAC. Fairly sure it's not the same coin.
Those floating devices are one of the main signs I use to spot counterfeits. It took me a little while to realize that they appear on legitimate coins, too. Beautiful and informative example!
Yeah, you have to be careful, I catch myself thinking some Morgans are fake due to the same thing in the hair, but real ones have it too. I just noticed this reverse die state also has floating wheat kernels (upper left). I've seen that quite a bit too, sometimes way more extreme.