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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 value of silver dollars can vary greatly, whether it’s the 1964 Kennedy half dollar or the 1922 silver dollar coin. And some rare specimens fetch astounding amounts at auctions.
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.
The American trade dollar therefore had to contain more silver, at 420 grains of 90% fine silver, fine content 378.0 grains (24.49 g), or 0.44 g more fine silver than the regular circulation Seated Liberty Dollars and Morgan Dollars. Most trade dollars ended up in China during their first two years of production, where they were very successful.
The GreatCollections.com website launched in late 2010, facilitating the sale and purchase of coins and paper money in online auctions. [6] It has since become well known for auctioning rare examples of American currency, [7] [8] such as the Cigarra Collection, [9] and a collection of Indian Head nickels that sold for over $500,000. [10]
Only 270,232,722 coins were melted for sale to the British, but this represented 47% of all Morgan dollars struck to that point. [3] The Treasury was required by the terms of the Act to strike new silver dollars to replace the coins that were melted, and to strike them from silver purchased from American mining companies. [4]