1889-P Morgan Grade and Value?

[HoardStein-migration]

This is another Silver Dollar from my Father's hoard. As with my other post about a 1934-S from his collection, this one has not been polished by Father or myself...my Grandfather and/or his coin dealer eons ago could have done it, or, more likely, the large amount of shine is what remains from the original mint luster. This coin is AU, I think, I don't believe it is an uncirculated mint copy although it might be.

[prudden]

Sorry,that coin has been polished to death.The face,lettering and eagle are never supposed to be like mirrors.

[bsshog40]

I agree, this thing has gone thru a buffer again and again. This is not an original look to any kind of Morgan.

[HoardStein-migration]

Understood...I guess my Grandfather thought he would add something to the look beyond that mint look. But, if he did buff this coin enough to get that mirror shine, shouldn't some of the upper most layers of detail been rubbed off? It doesn't look like it's lost any detail at all.

[jgrinz]

Polished and worth the Silver content right now ...

 

The answer to you question - YES - The breast feathers are gone and the DEPTH of detail is been rubbed away on the hair.

 

I and others use these as pocket pieces ( literally ) to show YN's and to start a natural wear of the coin ... in 4-6 months you will have a XF coin with a more natural look to it

 

Thanks for sharing

[James_OldeTowne]

Sadly, this coin has been extremely heavily polished. Otherwise, it has extremely-fine details.

[HoardStein-migration]

Actually, the breast feather detail is not gone...you just can't see it due to light reflection not allowing the camera to pick it up at that angle. If I have the coin at another angle so the lamp bulb light doesn't reflect directly on the breast feather area, you will see the same detail as on the wing feathers. So this worth way more than just the "silver content"..if you owned it, it would be anyway I'm sure..."Thanks for sharing"...

[bigebosw-migration]

This being so polished and a common date would not fetch much more than the bullion price from a collector.