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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lehigh96, post: 599733, member: 15309&quot;]Oh don&#039;t get me started about the NGC star designation.&nbsp; They are extremely inconsistent.&nbsp; In order to achieve the star designation, every grader that sees the coin must agree that the designation is deserved.&nbsp; This leads to many coins deserving of the designation getting snubbed.&nbsp; However, it goes a long way to ensure that almost every coin with the star designation deserves it.&nbsp; There are exceptions of course, however, I don&#039;t believe this coin is one of them.&nbsp; The beauty of this coin can&#039;t be appreciated through a photograph.&nbsp; This coin came from a bag of 1880-S Morgans which all had semi-prooflike fields, frosted devices, and many with rainbow toning.&nbsp; They sold on E-bay a few years ago and I bought up the MS66*&#039;s (I own four of them).&nbsp; There were at least 20-25 similar coins graded MS65 and MS64.&nbsp; Here is a closeup of this particular coin&#039;s obverse.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/ACPitBoss/Morgan%20Dollars/MorganDollar1880-SNGCMS66Star312-26.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The toning is not extravagant, but the overall eye appeal of the coin is fantastic.&nbsp; In summary, I believe the decision to star this coin was less related to the toning that it was the luster, frosted devices, and overall appearance.&nbsp; Just to give you an idea, here is one of the other ones from the same bag and same NGC submission.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/ACPitBoss/Morgan%20Dollars/MorganDollar1880-SNGCMS66Star312-27.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now this one was fortunate to get the MS66 grade IMO and the toning is certainly the reason for that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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