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<p>[QUOTE="Morgandude11, post: 8637578, member: 37839"]Ok, I think people have had plenty of great insights into the coin. Before I reveal the grade, a bit of backstory. I bought it for its uniqueness— in all of my years of collecting Morgans, I have never seen a coin quite like this— very clean surfaces, and dazzling luster, with so many die issues on one coin. It has, I think, 9 die cracks, a couple of polish or grease strike throughs, several die marker artifacts on the reverse, die striating on the reverse, plus a bit of rear die off-centeredness. It is practically a walking advertisement for a mint error coin. The die pair had to be in awful shape, yet it produced a very attractive looking, interesting coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>The average grade that people came up with here is a bit above 65. I don’t know where PCGS came up with this grade. I would only guess that all of the die deterioration impacted upon the eye appeal aspect of grading in their opinion. It does not matter to me, as I paid low 63 money for it, and love the coin, just the way it is. I thought the incredibly poor die state, with attractive surfaces, and brilliant luster made it a super interesting coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>At any rate, here ya go:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1517035[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Morgandude11, post: 8637578, member: 37839"]Ok, I think people have had plenty of great insights into the coin. Before I reveal the grade, a bit of backstory. I bought it for its uniqueness— in all of my years of collecting Morgans, I have never seen a coin quite like this— very clean surfaces, and dazzling luster, with so many die issues on one coin. It has, I think, 9 die cracks, a couple of polish or grease strike throughs, several die marker artifacts on the reverse, die striating on the reverse, plus a bit of rear die off-centeredness. It is practically a walking advertisement for a mint error coin. The die pair had to be in awful shape, yet it produced a very attractive looking, interesting coin. The average grade that people came up with here is a bit above 65. I don’t know where PCGS came up with this grade. I would only guess that all of the die deterioration impacted upon the eye appeal aspect of grading in their opinion. It does not matter to me, as I paid low 63 money for it, and love the coin, just the way it is. I thought the incredibly poor die state, with attractive surfaces, and brilliant luster made it a super interesting coin. At any rate, here ya go: [ATTACH=full]1517035[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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