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The Morgan dollar is a United States dollar coin minted from 1878 to 1904, in 1921, and beginning again in 2021 as a collectible. It was the first standard silver dollar minted since the passage of the Coinage Act of 1873 , which ended the free coining of silver and the production of the previous design, the Seated Liberty dollar .
The 1893-S Morgan dollar is a United States dollar coin struck in 1893 at the San Francisco Mint.It is the lowest mintage business strike Morgan dollar in the series. The 1893-S is considered to be a key date in the Morgan dollar series: examples of the coin in both mint state and in circulated condition are valuable.
1879 Morgan dollar. In 1876, George T. Morgan began creating a series of new coin designs at the behest of Director of the Mint, Dr. Henry R. Linderman. [1] Morgan opted to use the profile of an American girl to depict the Goddess of Liberty instead of simply creating an imaginary figure for the obverse of his new design. [1]
George Thomas Morgan (November 24, 1845 – January 4, 1925) was a United States Mint engraver who is famous for designing many popular coins, such as the Morgan dollar, the reverse of the Columbian Exposition half dollar, and the reverse of the McKinley Birthplace Memorial gold dollar.
The Top 100 Morgan Dollar Varieties: The VAM Keys 4th Edition (4th ed.). Port Charlotte, Florida: Rare Coin Investments. p. 200. ISBN 978-0965364553. Van Allen, Leroy C.; Mallis, George (1977). The Comprehensive Catalogue and Encyclopedia of U. S. Morgan and Peace Silver Dollars. New York, New Yok: Arco publishing. p. 316. ISBN 9780668040211
The dollar coin returned in 1999, in a case very similar to the 1921 Morgan dollar, with the Susan B. Anthony dollar, to fill in until the Sacagawea dollar came about in 2000. Concurrent is the Presidential dollar series, which ended its production in the fall of 2016. The American Innovation dollar was introduced in late 2018.
He is the son of Mamie Edna (née Revere; 1912–2000), a teacher, [6] and Morgan Porterfield Freeman (July 6, 1915 – April 27, 1961), [2] a barber, who died of cirrhosis in 1961. [7] He has three older siblings. [8] Some of Morgan's great-great-grandparents were enslaved people who migrated from North Carolina to Mississippi.
Peace dollar from the Redfield Hoard slabbed in a black Paramount holder. In 1952 LaVere Redfield's silver dollar hoarding was discovered. Redfield's home was burglarized and on investigation of the burglary police discovered a secret room in the basement of his large stone home. The room had 270,000 silver dollars along with a hoard of postage ...