I saw an auction on E-Bay for a 1921-D Morgan Dollar. I don't know how to get the auction page over here to Coin Talk, so yer just going to have to trust me! LOL The coin was certified by NGC as "Almost Uncirculated". That's it.....just "1921-D $1.00 Almost Uncirculated". Has anyone ever heard of this before? I have never seen a coin certified as "Almost Uncirculated". Does anyone know what that means? I mean, why would someone send in a coin to be certified that way? Is it a common practice? Again, why? Does it make the coin more valuable just because it has a NGC "certification"? Thanks in advance to all! swick P.S. The item# for the coin is: #140105372833 if this helps you to look at the auction. Unless someone wants to tell me how to get the aution page over here to the Coin Talk web site!! LOLOL Computer illiterate!!(me that is!!)
common date, not usually slabbed below mint state, probably the submitter thought it would get that grade and missed so now selling it.
Sounds like a vague reference to AU-something or other. The slabbing costs, so that in itself bumps it up a hair.
Here ya go. I didn't know NGC had that style of slab? All patriotic and all. Almost Uncirculated means AU, but I don't know why they didn't just put AU or AU55, AU58, etc. Weird. Phoenix
raw 09-s-vdb looks cleaned, and I don't see the vdb has a 64-s half listed http://cgi.ebay.com/Very-Nice-1909-...6047460QQihZ004QQcategoryZ39456QQcmdZViewItem
NGC has graded some bulk submissions of Morgan Dollars for the TV coin shows like Coin Vault. They are simply graded Almost Uncirculated, Uncirculated, or Brilliant Uncirculated en masse. I actually just purchased a Battle Creek Morgan simply graded Uncirculated. I wanted an NGC example of a Battle Creek coin with nice crescent toning, and only paid MS 60 bid for it.
I have seen coins graded simply BU on the TV coin shows many times. I always suspected they were low MS coins. And the sellers though BU sounded better than MS-62 or something like that. So they cut a deal with NGC.
