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<p>[QUOTE="Collect89, post: 1521003, member: 15445"]<b>SF mint had a process in place</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p> </p><p>I believe that the SF mint had a process in place where the coins were stored away at the end of the workday & freshly polished for the next use. The freshly polished fields caused PL surfaces at the beginning of die use when the dies were next put in service. </p><p><br /></p><p>A Morgan expert can make a good guess at the mint mark just by viewing the obverse. The same expert might make a good guess at the date of a Morgan by viewing only the reverse. There are plenty of good books describing the Morgan series. I recommend the Breen Encyclopedia, the Van Allen books and the red-book on Morgans.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Collect89, post: 1521003, member: 15445"][b]SF mint had a process in place[/b] I believe that the SF mint had a process in place where the coins were stored away at the end of the workday & freshly polished for the next use. The freshly polished fields caused PL surfaces at the beginning of die use when the dies were next put in service. A Morgan expert can make a good guess at the mint mark just by viewing the obverse. The same expert might make a good guess at the date of a Morgan by viewing only the reverse. There are plenty of good books describing the Morgan series. I recommend the Breen Encyclopedia, the Van Allen books and the red-book on Morgans.[/QUOTE]
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