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My 5 Westward Journey Sets. Hmmmm. I must say, the Sac dollars are flawless. I don`t know what they do to the nickels, but 2 of my sets, the PF nickels are S***, scuffed and scratches. The other 3 sets, the nickels are barely PF 67-68, and that is generous. I am happy, I guess, I got them. The Sac Dollars are flawless. I don`t get it.

These came yesterday

I`ve spent Silver Certificates and red seal US $2.00 and $5.00 US Notes that were too raggedy for keeping. These 18 year old store clerks

are baffled. They have to call over a manager to see if they are "real". I`ve spent wheaties and dateless buff nickels. I recently bought a roll of the new buffs. I never see these in change (even though they minted 780 MILLION of them). Out of the roll, maybe 3 or 4 were MS62. Nothing in a condition worth keeping, so I`m spending these as well.

Silver is mine. Nobody gets my silver!

This arrived today!

Wow! The koala looks like it`s jumping off the coin! You just have to love those reverse cameo coins. Too bad platinum is out of my budget.

Wonder how many Walkers gave their life for this:

 

You must admit, that is some mighty fine silversmithing!

Here's a new way of showing that a Morgan is DMPL, See how deep the slab will reflect.

Silver Dollar Grading Service is a new one for me too.

 

 

DMPL

Yeah, that Plastic that makes up the "slab" sure makes for a fine reflector!!!

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"The 'supersize' seems to show the 1942 over the 1943...that in itself is really odd....... "

This astute observation shows it to be a fake. The "GOD WE TR" showing

as raised on the bottom of Lincolns bust on the 1943 portion of the coin

shows that the 1942 portion was struck over the 1943.

"Well originally the Statue of Liberty is from France... am I going to assume that politics has caused the coin designs to go stale as the relationship of US and France are not at the best times ever? "

Liberty has been on US coins since at least 1793, long before the

Statue of Liberty.

I would classify myself as a specialist with hoarder elements.

I am drawn to certain series where every known die pair are cataloged, and new dicoveries are aggressively pursued.

Then again, I may buy anything on any particular day, for no apparent reason.

I saw the other postings as well. I think it has to do with your own age and frame of reference. Personally, I think the Modern era starts with the Lincoln cents, Mercs, SL quarters, WL halves. I would put the Barber series, Morgans, and Liberty gold in the Pre-Modern area. Others think

clad coinage is modern, silver coinage as old. Still others think it has to be pre 1900. It`s all a matter of your own frame of reference.

Whohah Wrote:

"Since 1958.

I got interested in the 'new' Lincoln Memorial reverse for the cent. I was 10"

I was 5 in 1959, when each one of us got a shiny new memorial cent from our kindergarten teacher. Even at age 5, it intrigued me that there could be "different" money. Dimes with the lady on it (mercs) and dimes with the man on it (roosies). Along about 1962, I got my first Morgan dollar from the bank. After a few Morgans from the bank (at the rate of one every month or two) I got my first Redbook. Been hooked ever since.

Bruce

If you need to ask if something is a good investment, then you probably

should do a whole lot more reading about the subject.

A good book to give you a very basic grounding in Morgan dollars

is Q. David Bowers "Red Book of Morgan Silver Dollars".

No one can give you the "stock tip of the week" as far as coins

are concerned.

Read and educate yourself and make your own decisions.

There are many good books out there.

I wwwwwould v-v-vote, b-but the S-s-s-slovenia n-note g-gave

me a s-s-seizure

Although I gave this a P1 in the poll, I revise up to F2. It`s really a toss up. IMHO no date in my book is Poor. BiggAndyy`s overlay shows it might be a 1921.

How`d you do that anyway, BiggAndyy?

I agree with MS64. Weakly struck like so many O mints. Breast on rev

really flat. Some confuse this with wear.

Bag marks consistant with MS62. Fairly well struck, nice luster.

"SSDC Official Guide to the Hot 50 Morgan Dollar Varieties"

This book is out of print and somewhat hard to find. I found one on Ebay, and the copy turned out to be a printers proof signed by the author.