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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Barney McRae, post: 26058054, member: 150594&quot;]This year I&#039;ve slowed down the mission to get a nearly full Morgan set to let my wallet catch it&#039;s breath. I&#039;ve about decided a 1893 S isn&#039;t in the cards unless I win a lottery that I don&#039;t even play. An ugly one is several thousand dollars.&nbsp; I added a few coins on the cheap that showed promise based on seller web photos, no attribution. I struck gold on 2 out of 3, the other one I&#039;m not sure about. One is a 1886 P NGC MS64, VAM 1A1. The year and mint is a very common one, the VAM, not so much.&nbsp; I bought well.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The coin I&#039;m really happy about below is also a 1886 P, raw ungraded. It nearly qualifies for the topic,&quot; purchases under $50&quot;. It didn&#039;t miss by much.&nbsp; There was enough detail to take a flyer on it. It&#039;s definitely a VAM 1-C, 3+2 clashed reverse Top 50 and Wow listing. Will try to take photos of the reverse clashing, but the rub is, I don&#039;t even want to remove it from the mylar flip before shipping out for grading and attribution. The coin is several times over better looking in hand than the seller&#039;s photos, and I still haven&#039;t ordered a camera stand yet. The NGC graded 64 gets put to shame by the luster and lack of flaws on this one. I&#039;ll be very unhappy if it does not come back MS66. </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ll try and get some high magnification photos of the clashes but can&#039;t get the lighting right without removing the coin from the plastic flip, and the flip creates lighting halos that completely ruin the view. I don&#039;t even want to handle it, much less potentially drop it on tile. Sellers photos, they look nothing like coin in hand. If not for the VAM, I&#039;d swear it was a seller&#039;s shipping mistake. The photos really do not capture it&#039;s essence.&nbsp;&nbsp; Again, we&#039;re talking small potatoes but paying 30-40% of retail value is never a bad thing. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1658190[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1658191[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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