Buy Morgan Silver Dollars » Morgan Silver Dollars http://www.buy-morgan-dollars.com Your source for Morgan Silver Dollars online Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:28:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 1884 Morgan Silver Dollar http://www.buy-morgan-dollars.com/morgan-silver-dollars/1884-morgan-silver-dollar http://www.buy-morgan-dollars.com/morgan-silver-dollars/1884-morgan-silver-dollar#comments Thu, 19 Mar 2009 01:26:10 +0000 Rick http://www.buy-morgan-dollars.com/?p=560 The 1884 Morgan Dollar has many different special die varieties that appeal to collectors. There are over 10 known varieties which have a small dash under the second 8 in the date. VAM-9, another popular variation, has a "Very Far Date",  and VAM-12 is another interesting coin where the motto "In God We Trust" is doubled. There were 14,070,000 regular circulation strike coins and only 875 proof coins struck. The 1884 Morgan can be worth around $30 to $40 as an MS-60, then close up to $25,000 as MS-68, in PF-60 near $14,000, and then a PF-68 is said to be valued at above $40,000.

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]]> http://www.buy-morgan-dollars.com/morgan-silver-dollars/1884-morgan-silver-dollar/feed 0 The 1895 Morgan Silver Dollar: A Coin Collector’s Dream http://www.buy-morgan-dollars.com/morgan-silver-dollars/the-1895-morgan-silver-dollar-a-coin-collectors-dream http://www.buy-morgan-dollars.com/morgan-silver-dollars/the-1895-morgan-silver-dollar-a-coin-collectors-dream#comments Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:19:54 +0000 Rick http://www.buy-morgan-dollars.com/?p=299 The 1895 Morgan Silver Dollar is often referred to as the “King of the Morgan Dollars”. It is called this because it is the most valuable and most difficult to find of the whole Morgan Dollar Collection. Although 12,880 Morgan Silver Dollars were produced in 1895 (12,000 being regular strikes and 880 being proof coins), only 75 to 80 of them have been discovered, and only three of those were regularly struck coins. If marked as a PF-68, this coin could sell for more than $120,000 at auction.

Numismatic scholars possess different thoughts on how the 12,000 regular struck 1895 Morgan Dollars have simply disappeared. Some suggest that during a shipwreck, the coins were lost. While most feel that the coins were never even produced, others believe that they were minted, but then remelted for a variety of reasons.

A man named George T. Morgan designed the Morgan Dollar, hence giving it its name. The actual title of the coin was to be called by was the “Liberty Head” Dollar. Because it had a scrawny look and a strangely shaped head, the eagle was looked down upon as very ugly. When first put into circulation, the Morgan Dollar got a lot of disapproval and was frequently referred to as the “Buzzard Dollar”. Due to its heaviness and large size, it was also called a “Cartwheel”. Because of their unpopularity, the U.S. Government let the Morgan Silver Dollars sit in a vault for many years. As the years went by, hundreds of millions of them were melted back down, while some, such as the 12,000 1895 Morgan Dollars, remained unknown about.

When huge sums of silver were recovered in the Comstock Lode located in Nevada, a lobbying group formed by mine owners, led by Congressman Richard Bland, attempted to make the U.S. Mint purchase this silver from them. When Congress admitted the Bland-Allison Act in the February of 1878, the U.S. Treasury was required to buy 2 to 4 million troy ounces of silver per month from the Comstock Lode. As a result of this, over half a billion Morgan Silver Dollars were produced from 1878 to 1904.

Some coin dealers realized around 1960 that the U.S. Treasury was swapping Morgan Dollars for Silver Certificates. Although most people sought after the Morgans for their silver bullion value, some realized the possible value of 60 to 80 year old coins to collectors. When only 2.9 million Silver Dollars were left, in 1964, the Treasury put an end to this trading. Starting in 1972 and ending in 1980, the GSA sold the rest of the coins through public mail-bid auctions. Morgan Dollars began gaining popularity in 1975, when Nevada miser, LaVere Redfield’s basement was found to have contained 400,000 Morgan Silver Dollars after his death.

Collectors later found out that they needed more than one coin from each year to complete the Morgan Dollar Series. This is because the “Comprehensive Catalog of Peace and Morgan Silver Dollars” (a.k.a. the VAM book) by Leroy Van Allen and George Mallis recorded all identified of the coin’s variations.

]]> http://www.buy-morgan-dollars.com/morgan-silver-dollars/the-1895-morgan-silver-dollar-a-coin-collectors-dream/feed 0 The 1921 Morgan Silver Dollar http://www.buy-morgan-dollars.com/morgan-silver-dollars/the-1921-morgan-silver-dollar http://www.buy-morgan-dollars.com/morgan-silver-dollars/the-1921-morgan-silver-dollar#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:12:05 +0000 Rick http://www.buy-morgan-dollars.com/?p=155 The 1921 Morgan Silver Dollar was the twenty-eighth and last coin in the Morgan Dollar series. It was minted in Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Denver. The mintages for this year are:

Philadelphia-44,690,000

Denver-20,345,000

San Francisco-21,695,000

There was no error coin produced this year. The 1921 Morgan Dollar in MS-67 condition has sold for as much as $15,000.

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Philadelphia-2,788,650

New Orleans-3,720,000

San Francisco-2,304,000

There was no error coin produced this year. The 1904-S Morgan Dollar in MS-67 condition has sold for as much as $45,000.

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Philadelphia-4,652,755

New Orleans-4,450,000

San Francisco-1,241,000

The 1903-S Micro S was the variety coin produced this year. The 1900-S Morgan Dollar in MS-67 condition has sold for as much as $36,500.

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Philadelphia-7,994,777

New Orleans-8,636,000

San Francisco-1,530,000

There was no error coin produced this year. The 1902-S Morgan Dollar in MS-67 condition has sold for as much as $21,500.

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Philadelphia-6,962,813

New Orleans-13,320,000

San Francisco-2,284,000

There was a 1901 Double-Die Reverse coin produced this year. The 1901-S Morgan Dollar in MS-67 condition has sold for as much as $40,000.

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Philadelphia-8,830,912

New Orleans-12,590,000

San Francisco-3,540,000

The 1990-O over CC was the error coin produced this year. The 1900-O over CC Morgan Dollar in MS-67 condition has sold for as much as $27,500.

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Philadelphia-330,846

New Orleans-12,290,000

San Francisco-2,562,000

There was special 1899-O with a Micro O minted in this year. The 1899-S Morgan Dollar in MS-67 condition has sold for as much as $20,000.

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Philadelphia-5,884,725

New Orleans-4,440,000

San Francisco-4,102,000

There were no special variety or error coins produced this year. The 1898-S Morgan Dollar in MS-67 condition has sold for as much as $35,000.

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