Recent purchase, what would you grade?

[JOBESSI]

I just picked up these two coins off the bay. Worried I may have paid too much. These are the sellers photos. If they don't look good in-hand, I'm sending them back.

They are a 1934-P Peace dollar & an 1884-s Morgan.

 

2 questions, GTG & what would you pay?

 

[FishyOne]

Based on those pics the '84-S would be AU+ and $200 and the '34 would be MS63 and $125.

 

I question the Morgan's surfaces. The Peace could be worth quite a bit more but $125 would be it from pics.

[Mark T]

Those pictures are awful; I suspect they were done that way to hide issues.

Lame attempt by the seller to make the Morgan look PL.

[coinman_23885]

I would call the 1884-S AU and the 1934 Peace Dollar MS63 at best; however, I strongly suspect that the photographs are hiding something. As was noted, both images are pitiful, and I wouldn't have purchased a raw coin from either set of images.

[JOBESSI]

i paid $120 for both. here's to hoping the guy is just an amateur photographer!

[Raisethis2]

Oddly, I agree with the grading by others above. They seem dead on. Hopefully in hand that 1884 S has more detail than appears in the pictures.

 

The two reverse hits make the Peace Dollar a 63 IMO.

 

 

[cpm9ball]

I'm always very leery when a seller doesn't take photos from directly overhead. I don't like whatever luster there may (or may not) be on both of the coins.

 

Chris

[James_OldeTowne]

MS-63 (Peace), and AU/severely polished (Morgan).

[Walkerfan]

Based on those pics the '84-S would be AU+ and $200 and the '34 would be MS63 and $125.

 

I question the Morgan's surfaces. The Peace could be worth quite a bit more but $125 would be it from pics.

 

+1

 

both look to have surface issues.

[Kamillion]

ya the morgan looks like its been either cleaned or polished.

 

the peace dollar, i cant really tell much from the pics except that it is MS

[Oldtrader3]

I sincerely would not buy either coin for that money. The '34-D's usually have decent luster, this one does not look the part. The 1884-S is a tough coin to find nice, with lots of various altered and counterfeits out there. It does not look like an early to mid 1880's, "S" coin.