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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CamaroDMD, post: 1463961, member: 5233&quot;]I&#039;m going to say MS63 for the 1881-S due to the bag marks.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1884-O I&#039;m a little less sure about.&nbsp; It has nice clean fields and is a good looking coin.&nbsp; However, it might have a tough of wear.&nbsp; The area above the ear on this coin appears a duller grey than the rest of the coin, it looks like there is a luster break there.&nbsp; On the obverse, this is the highest spot on the coin.&nbsp; So, my gut tells me AU58.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, the 1884-O is a date where the strike quality is all over the board.&nbsp; They are fairly easy to find fully struck and weakly struck.&nbsp; So, a loss of detail on the high spots doesn&#039;t really tell you anything.&nbsp; IMHO, this coin has a somewhat weak strike.&nbsp; A lot of people look at an &quot;O&quot; mint Morgan and buy into the &quot;they are always weak strikes&quot; and assume coins like this are MS.&nbsp; The key is to take the coin under light and rotate it and look for breaks in the luster.&nbsp; If you look at the photo of the 1881-S, the hair above the ear and the ear itself are the same color as the rest of the coin...because the light is being reflected equally.&nbsp; On the 1884-O, I see a duller grey in that hair and on the ear.&nbsp; This is why I believe the coin has wear...the light is not being reflected.&nbsp; If this coin was MS and just a weak strike...even though those areas lack the detail, they would still reflect well and be the lighter color.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, my opinion is the 1884-O has a little wear and is thus AU58.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, accurate grading with photos is an extremely difficult/impossible task.&nbsp; The only way to really know is examine the coin in hand.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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