1879 Morgan Silver Dollar ANACS Photo Cert Type 10 (1/1987-6/1990) AU50 Cleaned

1879 Morgan Silver Dollar ANACS Photo Cert Type 10 (1/1987-6/1990) AU50 Cleaned

1879 Morgan Dollar in a Type 10 old ANACS Photo Certificate "Slab" which is a plastic flip and is not sealed. The coin is graded AU50/50 (obverse and reverse). The 50/50 grade is their way of net grading back circa 1986 when this coin was graded. The current "details" grading had not yet been developed. And while the photo certificate does not state the coin has been cleaned, it has. There are hairlines on the obverse primarily that would prevent the coin from being straight graded today. It is also finer than AU50 in terms of overall detail, closer to a 58, so it is very obvious this coin has been net-graded as was the standard practice at the time.

If you are unfamiliar with the ANACS photo certificates and the 10+ types that evolved over the generation from 1972-1986, when the first hard plastic encapsulated slabs were used, just Google ANACS Photo certificate. There is a thread from the Collectors Universe Forum, and within the first post, a link to a Google doc with all the generations of photo certificates and how to tell which one is which.

The Type 10 was the last one used before the changeover to hard plastic encapsulation and was in existence from approximately January 1987 through June 1990.

These old ANACS photo slabs are getting rarer and rarer and harder and harder to find.

I acquired this and a few more at a recent auction and really do not know the value of these so I am open to reasonable offers.