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<p>[QUOTE="RedRaider, post: 1419205, member: 27181"]Hi everyone,</p><p><br /></p><p>If you have read any of my posts, you can tell I am a cent enthusiast. I need your help with grading the Morgan below, as I have no experience with Morgans. I was visiting my grandma in Ohio this week and knowing that I have started to collect, she pulled out her 3 boxes of coins that her dad left her. </p><p><br /></p><p>She has quite a collection that would have taken me the better part of two days to catalog and identify, but a few Morgans stood out amongst them all all and I came home with two of them to send off for grading. Both were 1881-O S1$'s. The better one is the one pictured below. There are very few marks and the obverse picture shows something going on on the lip, which is not there when looking at it under a loop. For some reason it only shows up in pictures. The obverse toning is hard to capture, but it is a rose/orange color which fades to a light green/blue in the lower hair curls. </p><p><br /></p><p>I did some research and found out that the New Orleans Silver dollars often show a weak strike due to extended die usage, but this coin looked phenomenal to the naked eye. Let me know what you think I should insure this bad boy for. Thanks,</p><p><br /></p><p>RR</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]172697.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]172698.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="RedRaider, post: 1419205, member: 27181"]Hi everyone, If you have read any of my posts, you can tell I am a cent enthusiast. I need your help with grading the Morgan below, as I have no experience with Morgans. I was visiting my grandma in Ohio this week and knowing that I have started to collect, she pulled out her 3 boxes of coins that her dad left her. She has quite a collection that would have taken me the better part of two days to catalog and identify, but a few Morgans stood out amongst them all all and I came home with two of them to send off for grading. Both were 1881-O S1$'s. The better one is the one pictured below. There are very few marks and the obverse picture shows something going on on the lip, which is not there when looking at it under a loop. For some reason it only shows up in pictures. The obverse toning is hard to capture, but it is a rose/orange color which fades to a light green/blue in the lower hair curls. I did some research and found out that the New Orleans Silver dollars often show a weak strike due to extended die usage, but this coin looked phenomenal to the naked eye. Let me know what you think I should insure this bad boy for. Thanks, RR [ATTACH]172697.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]172698.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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