Bought a nice Morgan today....

This is a common date morgan. It is genuine...I'm sure.

 

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I agree. This surface just looks a little too...how you say..."fresh?" I'd give it a couple more years, give the paint a chance to dry.

 

I have seen many morgans that look like that, this is just a mildly cleaned/buffed 1881-S. From what I can tell from the pics, it is genuine.

 

DJ, look at that first reverse, in that first set of pics. With all due respect, that's the one that looks mickey mouse to me. The surface looks like it had a little help, like it was beefed up, and the lighting, the reflections, don't seem to lay right. Now, lighting can be deceiving, granted. But, at the same time, it can be revealing. I haven't seen all the '81-Ss you've seen, I'm sure, but I have seen a few, "photo-grading," if you will, mine against the Heritage listings, from time to time. And this one, in that pic, it just looks "helped." In fact, I'll go as far as to say, throw out that pic, and I'm sure I wouldn't even be in this thread.

 

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help

I'm havin trouble identifying a morgan
it has no date

and on the back there is a single star with a string of cloth undernath it with what appears to be a weigher

 

Post a photo if you can!

Speedy

 

Welcome Coolio! Hope you like it here. Could you post pics of it? Sounds like a medal or a silver round honestly, but you never know.

Phoenix

 

Your photo jpg164 of the reverse does not look natural. The field surfaces look "whizzed" or polished. The 1880-S and 1881-S Morgans are famous and the most common of the Proof-lLike and DMPL (Deep Mirror) of the Morgan dollar series.

These coins are most noted by the mirror-like surface of the fields. They are also noted by a Cameo, or frosted appearance of Liberty on the obverse or the eagle on the reverse. This is seen on my avatar which is an 1880-S. Although this coin is obviously a Prooflike, it is TPG graded only as an MS64 (ANACS)with no prooflike designation.

Your coin looks too "shiney" overall, and looks basically unnatural. My opinion, based on your pics, is that it has been shined, polished, or otherwise been altered to decieve.....

 

maybe a pattern ?

I seem to vaguely recall a pattern like that, but don't know patterns very well.

 

is it any of these ?

http://uspatterns.com/silverdollars.html