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Nice to see you post @GBrad! I would call your coin MS65+ shot 66, a very difficult coin in 67 or better.

Propblem is that the photos are not good enough, when I attempt to zoom in on my phone the photo gets too pixilated to be of any value. It might be a strikethrough or it may not, can you provide any high resolution photos of just the mark itself.

Wheel marks are very difficult to locate in a static photo, you have to turn the coin in a proper light to find the hairlines that are left from a wheel mark. NGC has a nice section that explains wheel marks and how to find them. Wheel mark education As to your question, "I also would like to know how to resubmit this morgan to get another go around with the graders." that is simple. Crack the coin out of the holder and resubmit the coin, however it is unlikely that you will achieve a different outcome.

Cool set!

Are there any areas in the mark that are silver in color? The photos are not the best but it seems that close to the VDB at the center of the mark it looks silver like the zinc core is showing thru. If that is the case then a simple scratch is the most likely answer.

Perhaps you would expand on just what "this coin is a different composition to my understanding" means. I am not aware of any experimental metal tests the mint was performing in 53, nor do I recall the mint minting any coins for foreign countries or US territories at that time. Your coin looks to be a normal circulated coin, my guess is your scale is not as accurate as you think and you'll be wasting your time and money having any testing done, but that is your choice.

Most likely it is an end of strip planchet, the planchets are punched out of long strips of material and it is not uncommon for the very end of the strip to be thinner than the middle. Do you have a precise measurement of the thickness?

Guessing is a poor substitute for knowledge, if it was even remotely close to either of those two errors the knowledgeable collectors that have already answered you question would have said so. It is just a damaged coin.

Welcome back to this side of the fence.

I do not see any evidence of a 2/3 from this photo.

I cannot speak for anyone else, but I never buy a coin without seeing both sides.

Thanks Lem, in hand the qtr obv is slightly less iridescent but the rev has slightly better colors than the photo suggests. I personally think it is under graded but the way the TPG's grade washies I do not have a good handle on.

Thanks for the update, this pricing was not well defined or communicated so it is good to have some finality to this.

A couple of newps that are a bit out of the norm for me. These are the GC images as I have not taken or had any taken yet.

From a reply to Steve's post on the PCGS forum this appears to be an issue with the PCGS registry as well. I had initially thought this was just a simple issue of the recent domain change at CAC and it was just on the back burner as any entry level programmer could fix that type of issue very quickly. Now I'm wondering if there is a bigger issue either on the CAC side of the fence or on this side. For what it is worth I alerted Ali to this problem in early June, so it is not new.

Fairmont, the collection that keeps on giving, and giving, and giving.

Welcome to this side of the forum, 21 Morgan dollars are super common and not difficult to find, almost any (practically every) dealer is likely to have one, but without any idea of raw vs slabbed, condition or price point it is really impossible to give much help. For certified (slabbed coins) off the top of my head Northeast Numismatics is a good place to look as is JJ Teaparty, and David Lawrence, here are the links to these three. NE JJ DLRC

@EagleRJO it was a long shot to win this with a VF bid, you won't win many (if any) using Roger's bid points in this market and those that you might win will be the dogs, nice coins almost always beat the guide prices. As too your original question, the coin may be overgraded if you are using out of date (antiquated) references like the ANA or Rogers opinion, but under todays market grading it looks to be a perfect XF, and the bidders agreed.

Yes that does happen now and then. The bad news is it looks like it may have damaged the dollar coin.

Welcome to the forum, this needs to be posted in the Marketplace section of this forum. Additionally you need to provide photos of the obv and rev of each coin and the price you are asking. I hope you are not expecting much, from these photos you have about $5 retail value for the coins in your post. I have flagged this post for the mod to move to the correct area of the forum, please do not attempt to start a new thread for selling these, that just gets confusing

The best course of action is to post these photos on the CONECA forum and ask if they think it is worthy of an in-hand review as a new discovery. I suspect that this is just very deceptive die deterioration, but that is how I would proceed.

You can choose to cross at the same grade only on the submission form. That way NGC will not downgrade any that do cross. The downside is you may (likely will have) some that may not cross. Personally I think too many people are overly hung up on the holder thing, the coin is what really matters 99% of the time. The only exception is for some older holders where the market adds value for the holder. Keeping in mind my comments are for US coins, ancient and foreign coins can have other considerations.

Agreed, looks to be the typical tourist souvenir piece.