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<p>[QUOTE="ddddd, post: 8495178, member: 22377"]And for the reveal...</p><p>this one was a bit of a surprise. It started as a 64 and upgraded to 64+....my first ever plus grade! Being a New Orleans mint Morgan, the luster isn't as strong as the San Francisco examples (as [USER=56370]@KSorbo[/USER] pointed out). So that likely prevented a gem grade. Why did PCGS give the plus? I'm not sure. This is a harder date/mint mark combo for color but I don't think the color was as strong as a number of others that did not get a plus. I'll take the win though and it will help make the cost of this one more bearable (wasn't cheap given the difficulty of finding good color on this date).</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the HA photo (no photo of the new holder as that would give away the GTG for the last coin).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1503275[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ddddd, post: 8495178, member: 22377"]And for the reveal... this one was a bit of a surprise. It started as a 64 and upgraded to 64+....my first ever plus grade! Being a New Orleans mint Morgan, the luster isn't as strong as the San Francisco examples (as [USER=56370]@KSorbo[/USER] pointed out). So that likely prevented a gem grade. Why did PCGS give the plus? I'm not sure. This is a harder date/mint mark combo for color but I don't think the color was as strong as a number of others that did not get a plus. I'll take the win though and it will help make the cost of this one more bearable (wasn't cheap given the difficulty of finding good color on this date). Here is the HA photo (no photo of the new holder as that would give away the GTG for the last coin). [ATTACH=full]1503275[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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