Guess the Assigned Grade--1887 Morgan Dollar PCGS

Guess the assigned grade of the 1887 PCGS graded Morgan Dollar shown below. Please vote in the attached poll and tell me the reasons for your grade in your responses.



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ms65

 

ms64, sorry

 

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ms64 was my vote, I accidentally hit the 5

 

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I voted 64+ for eye appeal, but the hits keep the coin away from 65.

 

Gave it a 64. I am not sure, but I don't like what looks like a scratch across the date.

 

That scratch is on the slab, not the coin.

 

good. then i am more confident of it being a 64.

 

It's an awfully nice strike on, both, obverse and reverse. So, I gave it a 65 despite the small hits on the cheek & eyebrow.

Chris

 

I like the coin. Luster looks nice and it's not blast white. The tiny bit of toning looks great to me. I went with 65.

 

I also chose 65, some chatter and hits, but good strike and very nice eye appeal. Nice muted album toning, too.
Sorry, Larry, I know this looks a lot like what you wrote. I agree.

 

I couldn't decide between 64 and 65 straight grades. So I went with 64+. I think the hit on the eyebrow is particularly distracting, the little grazes on the cheek less so, but the remainder of the coin is stellar. The reverse is particularly lovely, but I know Morgan grades hinge primarily on the obverse.

I would be okay with this coin in an MS65 holder, but I can't see much higher than that.

 

65

 

I'm guessing an MS64 in an MS65 slab.
I think the marks on the cheek & neck hold it back from higher grades.

 

I think MS64. Very common date and there are hits to the face that would keep it from getting a 65.

 

I chose MS65. Contact marks on the devices not too severe, but evident. I think the luster would be outstanding, so I gave it a bump.

 

small dings in lower cheek, small amount noise in open field, a little noise in open field on reverse.....64+ pretty coin.

 

MS 65. First of all, the plus grades are not given all that often compared with a straight 64 or 65--they are for coins that are really high in grade, but not quite the next grade up. So, looking at the coin, it is clearly more than a 64-- almost completely clean cheek, nice fields, without the usual bag marks on the obverse. Reverse is cleaner than the obverse--Looks like a 66 reverse, but there are some contact marks on the obverse, so I would take the average overall grade of 65. Luster hard to determine just solely from a photograph, but the coin looks nice and lustrous to me. A bit of nice peripheral toning has formed, probably after a light dip. So, I will go with 65--had the obverse had NO cheek marks at all, I would have gone solid 66.