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Message:: [QUOTE="Bruce J Fick, post: 3180415, member: 97805"]To clarify , it's not the grade that makes a coin more desirable , it's the eye appeal. Coins are generaly more expensive if in genuine MS simply becauseof supply & demand. Eg: I've acquired some MS/A.U.58 1884 S Morgans. Ifyou research the (9/1992 PCGS Commentary of Morgan dollars, you'll readmost were placed into circulation at the time of their minting, an anomaly for Morgans. Morgans weren't popular. They earned the name " 2 beer dollar " which you can see in the movie: The Sackets. They were saved & preserved in true MS much later and only when the few MS Mint bags leftprovided a supply. Thus only the true MS 60-68 coins have condition rarity due to how many survived the melts, not the A.U.58 survivors. It's only the DMPL 1884 S Morgans that are URS-1 due to being struck from 1 die. One example had been graded NGC MS 63. Yet there was one in PCGS MS 60 offered in a recent Stacks & Bowers auction that people passed on when the reserve wasn't met. The MS 60-62 1884 S Morgans advertised on Ebay never move. I swear I've seen them listed even at discounts every day for years. But you know ? An A.U. 58 1884 S (certified/CAC) sold for $ 5800.It had superb eye appeal. The kind of eye appeal that in older days madecitizens save their Gold, and spend the less precious metals. Never believe the horse hocky claims you read on Ebay. As has been said: It's All About the Benjamins. ( Aka C notes ) Copacetic ?.[/QUOTE]