Here's an 1884-CC I bought. It's off to NGC for grading. It looks worse in the photo's than in hand. I think it should come back a 65.
@jtlee321 , nice CC. Looks like it's in a GSA holder. Update the thread with the results when you get it back.
@jpcienkus. It is a GSA, I forgot to mention that part. It came with original box, but not cert. I had to buy an extra cert for it on eBay, cost an extra $10.00. So I'm in it at $205.00 now.
I too have paid extra to get GSA certs. I think $10 for the 82, 83 or 84 is a bit much, but then again, I haven't looked in a while. The scarcer the GSA date, the $$$ the cert becomes.
Next time PM me for extra certs, I have plenty. I hope you get your 65 all depends what they think of the cheek and necks hits but as long as those are rather light and not deep you should be fine.
@blu62vette I will keep that in mind. The $10.00 included the shipping. I wasn't too terribly disappointed in paying it. But if the need shall rise, I will PM you. The cheek is rather clean, most of what you see is just breaks in the frost. She is pretty frosty. She has very few actual hits, and of the hits that are present they are pretty light. The lines that visible on the obverse and reverse are planchet striations. Those should not effect the grade. It's also a VAM-2, but I'm not paying the extra for attribution.
@jtlee321 You may want to see population of Vam 2 1884-CC Morgan dollars Grade wise could be worth $25.00 MS 64+ maybe gray sheet with details. GSA alway are off real pop.
@jello The NGC pop of the 1884-CC GSA Morgan MS-65 VAM-2 is 3 with none higher. Last I looked however is the VAM-2 is not in much demand.
That's because VAMmers use ANACS, not NGC or PCGS who only attribute VAMs they feel like. ANACS has 241 VAM-2's graded, more than two-thirds MS63 or better. 65 is their Top Pop, although both PCGS and NGC have it in 66+ (despite your Pop figures; Heritage has records of sales in those grades in attributed slabs in the last 15 months) and PCGS (at least) has 67's. I think yours has a decent shot at 65.
@SuperDave Thanks for the info. I pulled the pop data from NGC's own website. I'm guessing maybe they haven't updated it for a while.