GTG 1884-O Morgan Dollar

Sorry for the weird lighting, took it on the road.



Better image.

 

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Nice coin!
MS-63 PL

 

It's a tough call because of the lighting. The number marks suggests MS-63 or 64, but the luster looks to be impaired, which might be due the lighting. I don't see a P-L here at all. There is too much frost in the fields.

 

64, if it wasn't overdipped. Surfaces look a bit off.

Is it slabbed?

 

Updated the post with better images!

 

Yes. Pcgs

 

MS 64.

 

I posted updated pictures if you're interested

 

MS-64, but it’s not choice because it had lost something from having been dipped.

 

MS-64 (PL?)

 

MS 64

 

MS64, if it were an older holder when PL grades were a bit looser I would say possible PL but since it's a newer generation slab I'll say not.

 

I’m at 64 as well and looks dipped. Though the luster may be better in hand

 

And the result!

Don't know why but that's ok with me, very reflective fields and good amount of luster. The reverse is more clean than some 64s I have!

Here it is next to a 80-S in MS 64:

 

You can’t compare your New Orleans Morgan dollar to one which was struck in SF a couple of years earlier.

If you simply look at the hits, you may be thinking “this MS62 looks much better than the 64”. If you look at the originality of the surfaces, you may come to a different conclusion.

I admit though in the last picture the coin appears to be very nice for a 62.

 

There's just a bias because my first photos are so bad. I took those in a moving vehicle using sunlight and my phone. The first time this coin was posted by the original owner everyone agreed it was undergraded and dipping was not mentioned once.

 

It does appear to be a bit of a conservative grade. I guess the graders saw something that we're not in the images....

 

Lighting and slabbing notwithstanding... You done good, son! PCGS? Not so good.

 

I was going to guess 61, but I'll change my guess to 62.

 

You're the first person in either GTG threads to guess 61 or 62. What was your reasoning. You must be seeing something we are not...