New 1885-O Rainbow Textile Morgan (Story and Pictures included!)

[airplanenut]

Usually I just post pictures... but this time, there's a real story!

 

I decided a while back that I wanted to put together a morgan tone-type set... one of the more expensive types is textile toning. At the same time, I realized that I had a few 1885-Os already, and I wanted to try to put together the set of only 1885-Os. Long story short, I found some other neat dates, and the 1885-O fell by the wayside, but heck, I don't mind picking them up when they're pretty.

 

So, as I've been looking for a nice textile morgan, I've found them either way out of my range, or I haven't found them. Then this one showed up on DLRC--the image showed the color as rather flat, and I wasn't sure there was textile there, I might have been "seeing" it... I pondered it a few days and then decided I was an insufficiently_thoughtful_person to not buy it--there's a return privilege and I could really score. So I bought it.

 

A few days later, this morgan showed up. My first reaction was "HUH?!" This is not the bag-toned dollar I bought. But I saw the coin, and decided I liked it. When I got home, I emailed DLRC, they said the images had been switched, and I got the right coin, although to me, it wasn't the right coin. Oh, well. It looked a lot better than their images, and it was pretty, so it stayed with me. I then got the coin below for a discount on their list price, albeit it was more than I originally thought it would cost.

 

When it came, I decided I had won. Not only did I get the neat end-roller, but I also got a very colorful bag-toned dollar... with LOTS of textile (in fact, a bit more that's faint and can't be seen in the picture). Without further adieu (except the week I've waited to photograph/post the coin since it arrived), the newest member of my collection:

 

NGC MS63

 

 

 

Enjoy,

 

Jeremy

[kryptonitecomics]

Ok.....you lost me there just slightly, so you now have this coin with the textile toning and the coin in the other thread that's an end roller...............ok I think I have it straight now.

 

 

Let's see nothing left to say here, but that's one purdy Morgan............the textile pattern can clearly be seen on all three pictures

[airplanenut]

Yup--I decided not to return the end-roller because I liked it. Then, I ordered the coin I wanted initially... that's this textiler I own them both

[the_Thing ®]

Hey Jeremy. How about a quick lesson in textile toning. I'm assuming textile refers to the the bag the coin was kept in? Even though I have never been a Morgan fan (I think the chick on the obverse looks a bit too manly), that is a very attractive coin.

[Oldtrader3]

I got lost a little on this thread also. I do not know why Jeremy is collecting '85-O's? Usually they are pretty flat strikes and dull, as Morgans go. Nice coins though, for 85-O's.

[airplanenut]

How about a quick lesson in textile toning. I'm assuming textile refers to the the bag the coin was kept in?

Textile toning refers to the dots/squares that are from the woven bag. Notice especially near the 3 stars to the left of the date the yellow dots--that's the textile pattern. If the dots weren't present, this would just be considered a regular bag-toned dollar.

 

I got lost a little on this thread also. I do not know why Jeremy is collecting '85-O's? Usually they are pretty flat strikes and dull, as Morgans go. Nice coins though, for 85-O's.

Basically, when I decided I wanted to do a toning type set, I realized all the coins I had were 1885-Os. The come with lots of color, which is why I like them. My sig line is an 85-O, and I think I have 1 or 2 other than the sig line and the 2 mentioned in the thread. I've also got a few other dates with color (81-S, 82-S, 83-O, 86, 87 are the ones I can think of off the top of my head).

 

Jeremy

[the_Thing ®]

Thanks Jeremy

[kryptonitecomics]

You know what I am finding Jeremy........

 

There are a lot of 1885-P's with pretty toning. I purchased a real beauty from BigD5 and then I ended up winning what looked like it's twin for next to nothing on Ebay? I won't know for sure until I get it in hand, but from what I could make out in the picture they both exhibit a nice even orange toning across the entire obverse with other colors around the rim.

 

 

[airplanenut]

85-Ps are also good for color. Date is now secondary, although I did make it a goal of mine to, at some point, get the 85-O with textile, since it's usually hard to find and expensive. In my opinion, I ripped this coin (granted I still paid multiples of sheet )

 

Jeremy

[kryptonitecomics]

Yes, I haven't looked at a sheet for any of my Morgan purchases I simply paid what I felt was a fair price for each and did not give the actually sheet price any consideration at all. I like the coins, they all of character and considering none of them are above MS64 so far....I feel I am putting together a set that I can be proud of.

[Bruceswar]

nice story and a nice coin