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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Daggarjon, post: 170007, member: 4230&quot;]Before anyone asks for a picture, i will get one in the next few days or so =)</p><p><br /></p><p>My father-in-law pulls out his small collection of coins this past weekend. In his box, was an 1889 CC Morgan dollar. I almost dropped it. I didnt have a lot of time to examine it, but i jotted down the year and looked it up when i got home. I am not a collector of morgans, so it wasnt until i looked in my books did i realize the possible value. There were only 350,000 coins minted there, and Carson City has alot of &#039;fake&#039; coins. So one of my fears is that it is a fake coin. The coin has a blackish color tone to it. My first thought was that it had been cleaned. Morgans usually tone a rainbow color, yes? In an email i sent him, i told him of ways i could think of to determine in the coin was real or not - </p><p>1) weigh the coin, morgans weigh 26.73 grams not counting the subtraction for wear. </p><p>2) the &#039;ring&#039; test, where a silver dollar will ring differently then a steel one would</p><p>3) the rim test, to see if there was an edge on the rim from the early days of casting fakes</p><p>4) have a local dealer look at it, but they live in a backwoods town <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> so im not sure if they have them there</p><p>5) thrid party graders</p><p><br /></p><p>my questions is if anyone else has come across morgans that have that blackish tone on it, and if that is an indication of it being cleaned or fake. and also if there were any other ways for myself to determine if the coin is real or fake before sending it out if he so desires.</p><p><br /></p><p>and yes, i wil lpost a picture as soon as i get one.</p><p><br /></p><p>thanks goes to those who help!!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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