I have been looking for a Morgan slabbed higher than MS68 and I finally found one! Before you click on the link guess who slabbed it. In your reply please tell who you guessed along with other comments. This might get interesting. Thanks! http://cgi.ebay.com/SILVER-MORGAN-D...5088510QQihZ021QQcategoryZ39465QQcmdZViewItem
In all the time I've been collecting coins I've seen only one morgan graded MS69. It was an 1881-S as I recall and it was graded by PCGS. It was listed on ebay and I'd have bought it but unfortunately it ended a bit higher than I could afford. Say $87,000.
Genuine Gems I have regularly seen PCGS and NCG MS-68's, mostly the high end auction houses. $3500-$6500 seems the going rate for an accuratly graded "Monster Gem". I have never had the chance to see anything higher, at least business strike. What really gets me, ( maybe I'll do a thread on this) is the total " eye appeal " factor when figuring price on Rainbow ( genuine toning ) slabbed Morgans. Some of those go just way beyond logic in my opinion, but they sure are pretty !!! I have several NGC-66* 's, and my best Morgan is a PCGS MS-67 1881-s, I just won it on Ebay this weekend, along with a NGC 09-SVDB AU-55. I am totally jazzed tonight to say the least. Oh, yeah,... I guessed SGS...who else? Perhaps that Sully's Coins just as guilty. I bought a slabbed " 67" Peace just to see... AU-55 or so, but I only paid about $25 and knew what I was getting.
clembo: Wow, I didn't know that they graded coins that low! (as with everyone else, I guess SGS). I thought that their labels were pre-printed as MS-69 and MS-70.
