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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;stumped, post: 1354758, member: 35795&quot;]<b>Morgan 1884-s</b></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial">Dear Community </font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial">I have joined today as I have found two coins </font></span><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial">in my grandfathers belongings who sadly passed away in December.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial">These are One Dollar coins and are silver coloured dated 1885 &amp; 1884 I didn&#039;t think</font></span><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"> much of them until I walked past an antique shop selling coins and I thought, &quot;wonder what their worth&quot;. so I yesterday (last night infact) I looked up what the coin said in Google and learnt what mint marks to check for the 1885 does not have a mint mark but the 1884 has an S which I think according to websites is </font></span><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial">rare so I&#039;ve spent all day trying to figure out if this thing is real ?</font></span><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"> and im scared to take it to a shop it case they tell me its not and I look silly.</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial">My grandfather does not as far as I know have a connection with the US he was a compulsive buyer as I&#039;ve noticed by cleaning out his bungalow.</font></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial">i have looked at some things to try and see if</font></span><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"> its real or not I took it out of the plastic cover &amp; weighed the 1884 and it did weigh 26.73 </font></span><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial">grams but the scales I&#039;m using are certainly not high precision just cheap digital £10 scales the condition is pretty good but I ddon&#039;tunderstand what a vf or ms quality would mean I have tried to upload some pictures but they are too big. I have read some posts on here and it sound like you guys can help. thank you in advance for any help you </font></span><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial">can give.</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><font face="Arial"></font></span>[ATTACH]157494.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]157493.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]157487.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]157488.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]157489.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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