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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 86721, member: 4381&quot;]Well</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve had an interesting day in this regard.&nbsp; I&#039;ve brought 3 new Morgans today from 2 different dealers in Brooklyn.&nbsp; First, let me tell you that the coin dealers themselves are an interesting lot.&nbsp; I went to three dealers today.&nbsp; One guy had really no coins in the place of business but brought coins and was willing to take a list of coins I might want (PS - I never know what I want).&nbsp; His establishment was in the basement of a storefront building in Brooklyn and you had to access it from the back door inside the deli and walk down the stairs.</p><p><br /></p><p>The second guy I had to actually wake up from a storefront on Avenue U.&nbsp; He was in perhaps his early 60&#039;s.&nbsp; He was a friendly sort of fellow who said in the middle of conversation, (to a new potential customer no less ), &quot;I said NO, which part of &#039;No&#039; didn&#039;t you understand?&quot;.&nbsp; To which I tunred around to him and said, well, my question is not the meaning of &#039;no&#039; but what are say &#039;no&#039; to?&nbsp; The price or the availablity fo the piece?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I brought two pieces from him which I think I got a decent price for.</p><p><br /></p><p>The third fellow was just a couple of blocks away.&nbsp; He is close to blind maybe in his early &#039;80&#039;s.&nbsp; I recognized him as having a shop at one time in the late 1970&#039;s in Brooklyn near the juction.&nbsp; He had a decent selection available in the very old shop.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure I over paid for a Morgan which I&#039;ll describe in a second.</p><p><br /></p><p>So let me tell you what I brought.&nbsp; From the second fellow, the one who told me &quot;NO&quot;, I got two coins, both Morgans..&nbsp; One is a raw 1884 Morgan, reflective luster but not mirror like with a few small lines in it, but no vissiable wear that I can see.&nbsp; There &#039;might&#039; be a little wear on the lock of hair abive the ear.&nbsp; He insisted the coin is an AU 58 and sold it to me for 18 dollars.&nbsp; I don&#039;t see this coin as less than a MS 62.&nbsp; But what do I know.&nbsp; I sure do like the coin and if it was all I brought today, I&#039;d be happy.</p><p><br /></p><p>The next one he sold me was an NGC slab of a 1896 Morgan labled MS 63.&nbsp; This coin is mirror like at least 2 inches from the coins face.&nbsp; I see nothing but a few scratch marks from it even under the magnifying glass and no wear.&nbsp; This coin cost me 55 dollars with the NGC slab.&nbsp; The NGC slab says nothing about the proof like reflectivitiy, just MS63.&nbsp; I would have thought this coin at least MS 64.&nbsp; It does seem to have a scratch in the obverse near the nose in the black field.&nbsp; This coin is $60 in the red book.</p><p><br /></p><p>The third coin I brought from the third deal, the old man.&nbsp; I brough this coin mostly because i commited to him yesterday, and felt a little bad for him being in the sotre alone at such an advanced age, barely able to see.&nbsp; It&#039;s a real scene out of &quot;Death of a Salesman&quot;.&nbsp; This is a&nbsp; 1887 MS 64, again slabbed by NGC.&nbsp; This coin does not have a mirror like reflection, but it is nearly flawless from scratches wich just the lightest in the Neck of liberty and a couple of surface scratches above and below, &quot;In God We Trust&quot; on the reverse.&nbsp; Extremely clean otherwise.&nbsp; I overpaid for this coin, paying $100 when it books for $60.&nbsp; Overall though, its luster is not that of the one I spent $18.</p><p><br /></p><p>OK</p><p><br /></p><p>So three coins all in similar cost ranges&nbsp; I paid from $18 - $100.</p><p><br /></p><p>So My point is, I have no faith in any of this at the moment.&nbsp; My faith in grading claims on line is very skeptical at this time.&nbsp; Even in person, I hve no idea what I&#039;m buying.&nbsp; Forget about on line.</p><p><br /></p><p>That being said I like</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.harlanjberk.com/unitedstatesco/details.asp?inventorynumber=24824&amp;title=Morgan+Dollar&amp;inventorygroup=us&amp;linenum=36" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.harlanjberk.com/unitedstatesco/details.asp?inventorynumber=24824&amp;title=Morgan+Dollar&amp;inventorygroup=us&amp;linenum=36" rel="nofollow">http://www.harlanjberk.com/unitedstatesco/details.asp?inventorynumber=24824&amp;title=Morgan+Dollar&amp;inventorygroup=us&amp;linenum=36</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>and</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.vcoins.com/us/copperpenny/store/listCategoriesAndProducts.asp?idCategory=15" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.vcoins.com/us/copperpenny/store/listCategoriesAndProducts.asp?idCategory=15" rel="nofollow">http://www.vcoins.com/us/copperpenny/store/listCategoriesAndProducts.asp?idCategory=15</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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