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White luster; normal light bagmarks for the grade. A choice quality specimen.

1881-CC $1 MS60 GSA holder only no box

Deep and colorful obverse toning on this well struck, frosty specimen.

Fully frosted portrait against cascading mirror finish prooflike field, with a little warm golden "album toning" along the rims.

Untoned and refreshingly clean for this issue, with shimmering luster in the fields and chalk-white devices. The fields are silver, untoned, and satin

White.

Likely an early strike from fresh dies, judging from the details. The surfaces are satin silver with a hint of color.

The surfaces are bright with moon-glow white luster underneath dusky golden to pinkish gold toning, and show none of the muting often seen on 1881-S d

Original dusky gold toning with hints of pinkish red in the cartwheel sheen. A gem.

Choicer than average for this numerical grade.

Light gold toning.

Mellow golden color tops the lustrous surface.

Dusky gold toning.

Clean as a whistle, as one would expect from the grade; however, what really sets this coin apart from others is its intense cartwheel semi-prooflike

Brilliant with the usual light bagmarks.

A slam-dunk gem! Which means: Originally preserved, the surfaces are intensely lustrous with swirling cartwheel frost.

Lustrous fields ripple with original prooflike mint bloom. Against this are set nicely subdued, matte design elements. But for some scattered bagmarks

Frosty. A gem!

1882-CC $1 GSA MS63

Both sides display the typical "look" for this O-mint delivery: thickly frosted devices, rolling cartwheel effects in the mirror fields on...

White and lustrous, a pleasing coin in this modest condition.

The reference to eye appeal is quickly revealed by the photographs, for the coin displays lovely multicolor toning atop serious frosty mint luster. A

1882-S $1 PCGS MS64

White.

Nicely toned. A popular date for collectors.

Full white-on-mirror cameo contrast with the fields gem quality, the devices free from all but the most minute abrasions. A pleasing example.

Medium toning. (PCI MS65 holder.)

White.

White. A well struck example of this popular CC-mint issue, though with a few light field and device abrasions as usual.

1883-CC $1 MS63 GSA

White.

An even display of warm golden toning.

Lightly toned.

Well toned surface.

Flashy white luster.

The surfaces have a bright, metallic, satin-like sheen from the cartwheel reflective quality in the fields. Golden toned at the rim. The devices were

Always check your 1884 silver dollars for the "belly button" variety. Unfortunately, this isn't it.

This is a lovely, radiant Gem, both sides being essentially untoned with frosty, silver-white luster.

Frosty fields blessed with cartwheel luster. The more matte designs of the Carson City issues stand out nicely against this brilliance. No toning, jus

Refreshing snow white frost on the devices almost comparable to a “deep mirror” specimen, is nicely offset by the sleek, glittering mirrors revealed o

Blast of cartwheel frost characterizes this splendid coin. The strike is normal for the issue with the usual minor softness at centers.

Bright white frost intermixed with well-developed russet red and blue-as-steel toning iridescence. Well struck and lustrous with near-pristine surface

A touch of gold toning.

This well struck example exhibits deep warm golden toning and is quite attractive.

Silver-white satin luster is boldly displayed on this fresh-appearing Morgan with a golden toned periphery.

Attractively toned. Lot of 3 coins.

Somewhat uneven reddish brown toning obscures part of the design on this otherwise deeply mirrored specimen. As the photograph shows, this isn’t a coi

Bright white luster; housed in one of the first generation slabs.

A few scattered bagmarks; also housed in an early PCGS holder, pre-1989.

Typically frosty for the issue, the ice-frosted surfaces are nearly pristine with few singularly distracting bagmarks plus original toning.