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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;messydesk, post: 2739014, member: 1765&quot;]PCGS graded it 65.&nbsp; Some really light contact marks here.&nbsp; The super early die stage also takes a little flash out of the luster that you get when the die starts accumulating flow lines, and I think you need that for 66.&nbsp; If you look at the 66s on CoinFacts, you&#039;ll see many with lousy detail from die erosion, but they&#039;ll have bolder cartwheels because of this.&nbsp; Keep in mind that 66 is the end of the line for these as far as grade is concerned at PCGS, and NGC has graded one, count &#039;em, one in 67.</p><p><br /></p><p>SF didn&#039;t seem to harden the dies properly in 1921, which is why the dies eroded so fast, giving us high grade coins with crap detail despite being fully struck.&nbsp; Find an attractive 21-S with this kind of detail and you have a special coin for a date and mint that is typically shunworthy. Wayne Miller, in his Textbook, calls 1921-S &quot;by far the worst of any Morgan dollar in terms of appearance.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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