Toning Madness Lives!

[Peckris]

Good work Peck

The best part is I have both the picture and the unsullied original coin.

Yeh, ok up to a point. How do you get the colour off the spare?

Sorry, I should have said that I have TWO pictures (one unsullied), and the unsullied original coin

[VickySilver]

Ah, George Morgan a Brit brought over to America....Also, I do recall some pictures of desirable women for the time and them being rather of the Rubens roundness...LOL

[azda]

Think i'll buy me some bullion Morgans and experiment and see what colours i can come up with. First one will be called the toilet tone, it will probably be a chocolate Brown coloured type thing unless i have a vindaloo the night before

Edited February 26, 2014 by azda

[Peckris]

Think i'll buy me some bullion Morgans and experiment and see what colours i can come up with. First one will be called the toilet tone, it will probably be a chocolate Brown coloured type thing unless i have a vindaloo the night before

Ah, the good old days of 70s curries - everything was chocolate brown unless it had Tandoori or Tikka in the name, in which case it was bright bright red

[Rob]

Think i'll buy me some bullion Morgans and experiment and see what colours i can come up with. First one will be called the toilet tone, it will probably be a chocolate Brown coloured type thing unless i have a vindaloo the night before

Ah, the good old days of 70s curries - everything was chocolate brown unless it had Tandoori or Tikka in the name, in which case it was bright bright red

For anybody going back to the 70s in Manchester, the Plaza cafe on Upper Brook Street should bring back memories- some good, some bad. Choice of 4 curries, mild, medium, hot or suicide, differing only in the amount of red oil on the surface.

Ended up in hospital once after 4 curries there in a single dysfunctional weekend. The one for Sunday breakfast was a bit hard going.

Edited February 26, 2014 by Rob

[Accumulator]

My exposure to 'proper' currys in the late 70's involved visiting a girlfriend at Bradford uni. A bowl of soup-like curry and a pile of chapatis. No cutlery, just a sink in the corner for washing hands when you'd finished!

[Rob]

Yep. Been there. It's basic, but good. And the locals eat there too.

[Peckris]

Think i'll buy me some bullion Morgans and experiment and see what colours i can come up with. First one will be called the toilet tone, it will probably be a chocolate Brown coloured type thing unless i have a vindaloo the night before

Ah, the good old days of 70s curries - everything was chocolate brown unless it had Tandoori or Tikka in the name, in which case it was bright bright red

For anybody going back to the 70s in Manchester, the Plaza cafe on Upper Brook Street should bring back memories- some good, some bad. Choice of 4 curries, mild, medium, hot or suicide, differing only in the amount of red oil on the surface.

Ended up in hospital once after 4 curries there in a single dysfunctional weekend. The one for Sunday breakfast was a bit hard going.

OMG - Sunday brekkie in a curry house? That's taking things a bit too far

[jaggy]

Think i'll buy me some bullion Morgans and experiment and see what colours i can come up with. First one will be called the toilet tone, it will probably be a chocolate Brown coloured type thing unless i have a vindaloo the night before

Ah, the good old days of 70s curries - everything was chocolate brown unless it had Tandoori or Tikka in the name, in which case it was bright bright red

For anybody going back to the 70s in Manchester, the Plaza cafe on Upper Brook Street should bring back memories- some good, some bad. Choice of 4 curries, mild, medium, hot or suicide, differing only in the amount of red oil on the surface.

Ended up in hospital once after 4 curries there in a single dysfunctional weekend. The one for Sunday breakfast was a bit hard going.

Chicken Biryani and not many alsatian dogs in the neighbourhood.

Jaggy: Manchester Poly - 1973-1976

[azda]

Funnily enough i bought a few Morgans in auction last week, they were only described as "Morgan Dollars" no mention of mintmarks but they did say all were UNC.

They arrived today and their grades were pretty spot on and i was fairly happy when i checked and found an 1878CC 1879S 1881S 1882 Oand the last one is just 1882

[RLC35]

Funnily enough i bought a few Morgans in auction last week, they were only described as "Morgan Dollars" no mention of mintmarks but they did say all were UNC.

They arrived today and their grades were pretty spot on and i was fairly happy when i checked and found an 1878CC 1879S 1881S 1882 Oand the last one is just 1882

Good find with the "CC" Dave!

[azda]

It was sheer luck Bob. I'll post a couple of pics here later when i get home and get your opinion and which VAM? Number i have etc etc etc.

Edited February 26, 2014 by azda

[brg5658]

Funnily enough i bought a few Morgans in auction last week, they were only described as "Morgan Dollars" no mention of mintmarks but they did say all were UNC.

They arrived today and their grades were pretty spot on and i was fairly happy when i checked and found an 1878CC 1879S 1881S 1882 Oand the last one is just 1882

I hope they are genuine. I have seen about as many fake CC Morgans as I have seen genuine ones.

[azda]

I'll compare it to my 1879 CC, but it looks the real deal, weights the real deal

[Peter]

When I was working at Waterloo by train back to Suffolk left from Liverpool Street.

A couple of other lads used Liverpool Street which is a stones throw from Brick Lane and Green Street.

You had to take your own beer into the many Curry houses.We ate there at least twice a week for about £5 per head

Smashing grub.I also had a Pakistani clerk and his mother often sent me a container of curry for my lunch.

[azda]

Dribble tray is'nt provided with these pics

[azda]

Proof or prooflike?

[azda]

What are we looking at grade wise? I'll upload the others tomorrow

[RLC35]

What are we looking at grade wise? I'll upload the others tomorrow

The 1878-CC MS62 Book $300.00

Strong Obv (Hair above ear strong), Weaker Rev (Breast feathers are weak), weaker color...

The 1881-S MS-64 Book $95.00

Strong Obv. and Rev. Nicer Fields...

Those are redbook values, they can usually be bought for less (check eBay!).

Just my humble opinion...

[azda]

Thanks for that Bob, i thought the Carsons were scarcer than that, anyway they are all nice coins. Here are the others, grades again would be good

[azda]

[azda]

[Peckris]

Proof or prooflike?

Prooflike, Dave. I have one (the common 1886 O) that ticks all the boxes - mirror fields and frosted designs - but I'm assured that many Morgans are like that, and are not proofs. Before the current craze for AT in some quarters over there, the desirability factor was how 'mirrored' the coin was, the more the better.

[azda]

Thanks Peck.

This is quite a good site for ballpark Morgan prices, what o don't understand though is the 5 or 6 variations oft he same coin, tail feather variations i understand but there seems to be a few the same variants

http://www.ngccoin.com/poplookup/us-coin-prices.aspx?SubCatID=49&Designation=MS&PopSubCat=us-morgan-dollars

Edited February 27, 2014 by azda

[RLC35]

Thanks Peck.

This is quite a good site for ballpark Morgan prices, what o don't understand though is the 5 or 6 variations oft he same coin, tail feather variations i understand but there seems to be a few the same variants

http://www.ngccoin.com/poplookup/us-coin-prices.aspx?SubCatID=49&Designation=MS&PopSubCat=us-morgan-dollars

The 1878 variants are for the different reverses, plus one overdate (8/7). The redbook shows the different reverses. BTW...the prices you see on the NGC site are for slabbed coins, which are generally, sightly higher than raw coins.