1879-S Morgan

[Dene]

I know it's tough to put a grade on from a picture, but looking at this coin, what grade would you give this? I sent it to PCGS and was surprises at the grade they geve it. Sorry about the reverse but I ran out of picture space. The reverse is spotless with no hits.

[braddick]

The fact you're surprised at what PCGS graded it, I'd say you either were awarded the MS66 grade or you were punished with a GENUINE holder.

 

The neck abrasion and the cheek slide (including the left obv. field at 10:00 gives me pause at anything over MS65.)

[Brando]

Looks like a pretty clean coin, but I could see a number of reasons why you may (or may not) have been "surprised" by PCGS - all of which were pointed out by braddick in the above post.

[relicsncoins]

Need larger photos, and a shot of the reverse before offering an educated guess as to the grade.

[relicsncoins]

Need larger photos, and a shot of the reverse before offering an educated guess as to the grade.

[James_OldeTowne]

An image of this small size makes it impossible to evaluate the effect hairlines and tiny abrasions. From that image, it looks MS-68, but it's really impossible to guess.

[123cents]

Kind of hard to tell but I will guess MS-65.

[MunkyMan95]

65

[Dene]

[Dene]

It came back as a 66 which suprised me as i thought it would be a 65 with the few bag marks

[James_OldeTowne]

In my experience, those contact marks at the point of the bust tend to have much less impact on the overall grade than marks on the cheek. Your image appears to portray an immaculate cheek, which almost by itself puts you into MS-65 range, even if the balance of the coin has quite a few abrasions.

[michael]

a gem+ grade

the morgan looks like it has really good eye appeal to boot

 

a great coin!

 

i think you did well with your submission but it was a great coin to start with (thumbs u