Coins - Hope I Didn't Make a Mistake

I put up two Morgan dollars this morning, and they sold within 15 minutes. I had tried looking both dates up on ebay but I was only getting like 15 results for each one - not much to go by. Turns out, if you don't use "U.S." or "US" in the search results, you get thousands of results.

I know the 1890 CC coins sell for more, but I'm seeing non-CC coins for plenty of money too.

Anyone who knows coins mind taking a look at them to see if they're anything special? both sold in the $30+- range.

Or would this be better to take over to the Coin forum site?

 

The 1890 is very clean and should weigh very close to 26.73 grams.

 

It's 26.76 according to my scale. I noticed it's in much better condition than the other one.

Should I have had it graded?

I don't mind taking a hit for my stupidness, but I'm wondering just how stupid I was.

 

This, and other like it may help ...
https://www.silvermonthly.com/fake-silver-coins/

What does the 1882 weigh? it should be a tad less.

 

That one weighs 26.07. That seems pretty light; how much can wear account for attrition (not contrition as I previously wrote..lol)?

I would be surprised if these weren't legitimate coins. They were collected well over 60 years ago by my grandfather. Then again, I don't know how long some of these have been faked. I will check out the tests in your link. Thank you.

Edited to add: I have a pretty cheap scale, so it may be off a bit, but not that much.

 

Neither coin is particularly rare. The 1890 had 16.8 million minted and the 1882 about 11 million. Compare that to the 1893-S and 1884 of which about 100,000 each were minted.

Grading the 1890 wouldn't help much with the value. There are plenty out there that have been graded MS-60 or better. In fact, 9763 coins of the 1890 have been graded MS-63 while only 10 of the 1893-S coins have achieved that level.

 

Both coins are real. Neither are rare enough to merit faking.

 

Being collected 60 years ago by a family member is good. Neither have "key date" value that would make them less likely to be faked.

 

Thank you all for the messages. That reassures me. The info on the grading is particularly interesting and helpful.

I'm so glad you all are knowledgeable on this stuff. I have the patience for researching jewelry, but coins give me a bit of a headache.