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Message:: [QUOTE="Vroomer2, post: 1196590, member: 80251"]The Case of the Bad 1895 Morgan The 1895 Morgan got me into Morgan dollars back in 1988 when my dad was stationed on Oahu at K-Bay. Back then, my family would go to King's Coins in Kailua about once every month or two. Mr. King was great about using the Red Book to help my dad and me collect a decent raw set of IHCs. We got all but the 1856 FE and 1877 IHC. (I picked up an 1877 in 2006 in Santa Barbara). One of Mr. King's regulars had a pocket piece Morgan dollar, an 1895 Morgan dollar. From my copy of the Red Book (1988 edition), I knew the 1895 was THE KEY Morgan. 12,000 minted, zero in circulation, all melted, about 800 proofs survived. Etc. Etc. The first time he showed it to me, he pulled it out of his wallet, put it on the glass case, and told me to pick it up. Picking the 1895 up by the edges, sure enough, it was an 1895!! He told me to flip it over. Sure enough, there was no O, no S!!! Why was this coin in his pocket?? Handing his 1895 back to him, he said he carried it as a pocket peice because he thought it had been an 1895-O with is mint mark removed. Back then, little kid me had no idea how he could have known that. I looked where the O should be and it did not look like someone had scratched or scraped or melted the O off. Looking back on the 23 year old memory, the 1895 was not a proof strike. And with the DMPLs I have, it was not even a former DMPL coin. I must agree it was an altered mint mark coin.  <img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y258/vroomer/Coins/Morgan%20Dollars/1895-OObv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y258/vroomer/Coins/Morgan%20Dollars/1895-ORev.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> (This is my 1895-O PCGS AU-55. just to have an image in this post.)[/QUOTE]

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