Your thoughts on grade and condition. Thanks. They are cell phone pictures in natural light. Best I could do right now.
No grade--very harshly cleaned. MS details. Shame, as it would have been a nice coin. Evidence of being mechanically polished on obverse.
The entire surface is abraded. Look at the enlarged pictures--harshly cleaned. I know Morgans well, and that one is cleaned. Reverse has hairlines and scratches also.
Also, on the close up of the reverse, there are some pretty deep gouges, indicating a mechanical cleaning process.
I feeling pretty dejected with one. I didn't spend a lot of money on it so it's not that, it's that I didn't realize how bad my eye is. I studied this in hand and missed most of everything mentioned. I have done a lot better in past with not buying problem coins so i thought i was learning. I could always buy certified but I prefer raw coins. For this to be obviously harshly cleaned and me missing it really turns me off to attempting to buy raw coins in the future.
Definitely altered surfaces . . . the contrast between the marks and surrounding surfaces would be much greater on an unaltered coin.
I looked as hard as I could to come up with a better judgment; however, with your enlarged photos there is no flow lines on the fields and some of the marks are rounded and smoothed. Unfortunately it has been at the very minimum cleaned harshly. Look at the lettering real close, it looks like the corners have been broken or 'rounded' by some mechanical means. From my recent lessons in whizzing, I would agree with Sean above Sorry - no grade.... God why do people mess with such beauty!
Yupp....both sides of the eagle's wings--right and left, and above "In God We Trust." Sorry, but it is definitely a details coin. Since that is a common date, next time get your common date coin in a slab, until you learn the telltale marks of a cleaned or mechanically altered surface coin--it will cost a little more, but you will have a coin you can really enjoy, with minimal risk.
