The Monster Toned Coin Game Thread

Okay, another Morgan. 1878 8 tail feathers
MS 66

 

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Starting off on decimals, I'll go 5.8

That is almost a monster in my view but the area around the E and the star holds it back

 

5.5
Great colors.

Does the scale stop at 6 or run to 6.9?

 

I'm at a 5.1.

The toning breaks bother me a little, especially the area on the cap, and I don't really understand this toning pattern. The coin has what appears to be target toning on the obverse where the toning progresses as you move towards the peripheries and there are even concentric bands of color. However, target toning is typically achieved via album storage and both side of the coins are toned. This coin has target toning on the obverse but the reverse is untoned like we would see on a bag toned Morgan. That said, the color progressions and elevation chromatics look great. Perhaps this is an EOR.

 

I would bet on end roll toning. I had the same questions, myself.

 

Due to the color breaks on the obverse I'll give it a 5.3

 

5.0 for me. As others mentioned, the toning breaks are detracting/distracting.

 

Yeah, I see it as a 6. Once again, one I no longer own. Photo is way old, with lousy pixilation, from back in the early 2000’s. I owned it as a 65 in a 4th generation PCGS holder. Sold it in 2015, for moon money, after buying it for $300 in 2006. It was reholdered, and made 66, and has sold again in private auction for 5 figures. There are some minor toning breaks, but the target tone at least as I remember was very intense and quite nice. Almost certain it was end roll toning, as Paul pointed out, if it were album toning, it would be double sided. A low monster (not oxymoronic), as it should really have both sides toned at that level. Once again, no skin in the game, anymore, so fire away with more evals.
i was never attached to the coin. While I see it as a monster, it did leave me cold in some respects. Sorry for the digression.

 

I think its a 6 as well

 

Good grief, 5 figures!?

smh

 

Quite tame compared to the $130k Franklin and some other examples.

 

That is the highly toned Morgan world now. All of the Northern Lights Morgans went for $5,000-25,000. That is the market in the last decade.

 

Whatever floats your boat I guess.

 

I am not in that market, anymore. Got them before the toned Morgans went insane. Sold at the middle of the hot market. Into toned Jeffersons now, and UK coins. On this thread we are learning from each other.

 

I love it. I consider it end roll too. 5.6 I’d give it. That intoned space Is why I’m not higher

 

I know its probably small and blurry but here is a quick collage i through together for our morgan scale.

 

I noticed I missed labeling one but I believe it was also a 3.

 

Awesome work @LuxUnit !
Much appreciated and a great visual summary of the Morgan posted so far.

 

Summary Chapter 1
Rd. 1: 1883-O Morgan NGC MS63* [Obv]...CT -> 3.6 (Mid) vs You -> 4 (Mid-High)
Rd. 2: 1880 Morgan PCGS MS62 [Obv]...CT -> 2.7 (Low-Mid) vs You -> 3 (Mid)
Rd. 3: 1881-S Morgan PCGS MS65 [Rev]...CT -> 3 (Mid) vs You -> 3 (Mid)
Rd. 4: 1880-S Morgan PCGS MS65 [Obv]...CT -> 4.6 (Mid-High) vs You -> 5 (High)
Rd. 5: 1880-S Morgan NGC MS66* [Obv]...CT -> 3.2 (Mid) vs You -> 3 (Mid)
Rd. 6: 1880-S Morgan PCGS MS?? [Rev]...CT -> 3.5 (Mid) vs You -> 3 (Mid)
Rd. 7: 1887 Morgan PCGS MS64 [Obv]...CT-> 4.2 (Mid-High) vs You-> 4 (Mid-High)
Rd. 8: 1939-D Lincoln PCGS MS65RB [Obv]...CT-> 4.1 (Mid-High) vs You-> 5 (High)
Rd. 9: 1972-D Ike PCGS MS63 [Obv]...CT-> 2.3 (Low-Mid) vs You-> 2 (Low-Mid)
Rd. 10: 1892 GB Half Crown PCGS MS64 [Dual]...CT-> 4 (Mid-High) vs You-> 4 (Mid-High)
Rd. 11: 1967 UK Half Crown PCGS MS65+ [Dual]...CT-> 3 (Mid) vs You-> 3 (Mid)
Rd. 12: 1963 Franklin NGC MS65+* FBL [Rev]...CT-> 4 (Mid-High) vs You-> 4 (Mid-High)
Rd. 13: 1884-O Morgan PCGS MS63+ [Obv]...CT -> 5 (High) vs You -> 5 (High)
Rd. 14: 1899 GB 6 Pence PCGS MS65 [Dual]...CT-> 5 (High) vs You-> 5 (High)
Rd. 15: 1926 F.I.C. Piastre PCGS AU58 [Dual]...CT-> 3 (Mid) vs You-> 5 (High)
Rd. 16: 1904 USP Peso NGC PF62 [Dual]...CT-> 2.8 (Low-Mid) vs You-> 4 (Mid-High)
Rd. 17: 1944 Jeff Nickel PCGS MS 66 [Obv]...CT-> 4.8 (Mid-High) vs You-> 5 (High)
Rd. 18: 1880-S Morgan PCGS MS 66+ [Obv]...CT-> 2.7 (Low-Mid) vs You-> 3 (Mid)
Rd. 19: 1881-S Morgan PCGS MS 68+ [Obv]...CT-> 6 (Monster) vs You-> 6 (Monster)
Rd. 20: 1887 Morgan PCGS MS 66+ [Obv]...CT-> 5.3 (High) vs You-> 6 (Monster)
Rd. 21: 1880-S Morgan NGC MS 66* [Obv]...CT-> 4.5 (Mid-High) vs You-> 5 (High)
Rd. 22: 1941-D Jeff Nickel NGC MS 67* 5FS [Dual]...CT-> 4.9 (Mid-High) vs You-> 6 (Monster)
Rd. 23: 1961 Franklin 50c PCGS PR 65 [Dual]...CT-> 5.3 (High) vs You-> 6 (Monster)
Rd. 24: 1884-O Morgan NGC MS 61* [Obv]...CT-> 2.7 (Low-Mid) vs You-> 4 (Mid-High)
Rd. 25: 1941-D Jeff Nickel PCGS MS 66 FS [Dual]...CT-> 3.6 (Mid) vs You-> 3 (Mid)
Rd. 26: 1708 GB Shilling PCGS MS64 [Dual]...CT-> 2.8 (Low-Mid) vs You-> 3 (Mid)
Rd. 27: 1880-S Morgan PCGS MS64 PL [Rev]...CT -> 5 (High) vs You -> 5 (High)
Rd. 28: 1835 10c PCGS AU58 [Rev]...CT -> 3.9 (Mid) vs You -> 5 (High)
Rd. 29: 1888 Morgan PCGS MS65+ [Obv]...CT -> 4 (Mid-High) vs You -> 4 (Mid-High)
Rd. 30: 1904-O Morgan NGC MS64 [Dual]...CT -> 3 (Mid) vs You -> 2 (Low-Mid)

Summary Chapter 2
Rd. 31: 1878 8tf Morgan PCGS MS66 [Obv]...CT -> 5.5 (High) vs You -> 6.0 (Monster)