GTG 1884-O Morgan

GTG 1884-O Morgan. Who can figure out what else is going on??
*Thanks superDave for fixing the photos.



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Ms-63

 

MS-63 and I'm not seeing the cracked planchet...

 

62

 

Guys. Hint. This is a VERY strange one.

 

MS 62 ...too many hits to go higher

 

I'm guessing it's the copper in the silver?

 

You ain't lyin'. I gotta think about this one.

 

That seems part of it to me; it's like a cake mix you only took two swirls of the mixing spoon thru, and then baked the result. I don't even think you could call it an "alloy." The strike is all kinds of weird, as well.

 

62

 

Hmm.. I say MS-63. The date appears to be a far date. Oval O. A lot of stuff happening around the rim, probably hits. What is that by the eagle's right wing? A hit? Looks raised like a gouge.

Very mushy strike, especially on the reverse. Im gonna go out on a very far limb and say with the help of scotch, maybe it is a late stage strike through capped die

 

Forgive me; I couldn't handle looking at the images as posted.

 

Thank you!!

 

Is that a raised dot under the E in UNITED??

 

What would cause a piece of copper to be floating around a planchet like that for it to be a strike thru on the obv and then the reverse an unmixed swirl?

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I don't think the temperature ever got high enough for the silver and copper to properly mix into alloy. The color of the coin - where it's silver - is too "silvery" for me to believe there's much copper present. I'd like to see an XRF survey of the surface.

 

I can make that happen at long beach

 

I wouldn't be surprised if the appearance of that coin did not change one whit when dipped.

 

When is LB?

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And here I am looking for the VAM... Now I am curious to see what the slab says. Very neat coin.