Morgan Dollars

Political pressure, not public demand, brought the Morgan dollar into being. There was no real need for a new silver dollar in the late 1870s; the last previous “cartwheel,” the Liberty Seated dollar, had been legislated out of existence in 1873, and hardly anyone missed it.

Silver-mining interests did miss the dollar, though, and lobbied Congress forcefully for its return. The Comstock Lode in Nevada was yielding huge quantities of silver, with ore worth $36 million being extracted annually. After several futile attempts, the silver forces in Congress—led by Representative Richard (“Silver Dick”) Bland of Missouri—finally succeeded in winning authorization for a new silver dollar when Congress passed the Bland-Allison Act on February 28, 1878. This Act required the Treasury to purchase at market levels between two million and four million troy ounces of silver bullion every month to be coined into dollars. This amounted to a massive s.... (Expand Text)

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1878 MORGAN S$1 PR66 Cameo

8 TAILFEATHERS. GEM WHITE CAMEO PROOF SURFACES. ONLY 500 STRUCK. JUST FOUR COINS GRADED HIGHER AT PCGS.
$52,250.00

1878-S MORGAN S$1 MS67

GEM LUSTROUS SURFACES BLANKETED BY A KALEIDOSCOPE OF FABULOUS PATINA. JUST FOUR COINS GRADED HIGHER AT PCGS.
$11,000.00

1879-CC MORGAN S$1 MS65

GEM SATIN LUSTROUS SURFACES. LOVELY AQUAMARINE TONING ON REVERSE.
$26,000.00

1879-CC MORGAN S$1, CAPPED DIE MS64

CAPPED DIES. GEM SATIN LUSTROUS SURFACES. CAC.
$19,250.00

1881 MORGAN S$1 MS65 DMPL

GEM WHITE DEEP CAMEO. ONLY 3 MS65+DCAM COINS GRADED HIGHER
$14,250.00

1881-S MORGAN S$1 MS68

GEM BRILLIANT LUSTROUS SURFACES.
$6,000.00

1882 MORGAN S$1 MS67

GEM, VERY COLORFUL SURFACES. VIRTUALLY NOT A MARK ON THE COIN. ONLY ONE MS67+ GRADED HIGHER AT PCGS. CAC.
$24,750.00

1882 MORGAN S$1 PR67 Deep Cameo

GEM WHITE DEEP MIRRORED FIELDS WITH FROSTY DEVICES. JUST THREE COINS GRADED HIGHER AT PCGS. CAC.
$38,500.00

1882-CC MORGAN S$1 MS67 Proof Like

IMMACULATE SATIN DEVICES WITH PROOFLIKE SURFACES. TIED WITH TWO OTHER COINS FOR HIGHEST GRADED AT PCGS.
$24,750.00

1882-O/S MORGAN S$1, O/S STRONG MS65

STRONG OVER O/S. GEM WHITE SATIN LUSTROUS SURFACES. VERY WELL STRUCK. ONE OF THE FINEST SPECIMENS KNOWN.
$55,000.00

1883 MORGAN S$1 MS66 DMPL

GEM WHITE DEEP MIRRORED PROOFLIKE. JUST 2 MS66+DMPL COINS GRADED HIGHER.
$11,950.00

1883 MORGAN S$1 MS67+

GEM SATIN WHITE SURFACES WITH A TINGE OF PERIPHERAL TONING. ONLY SIX COINS GRADED HIGHER AT PCGS.
$6,750.00

1883-S MORGAN S$1 MS64

VERY CHOICE AND LUSTROUS. CHOICE PERIPHERAL TONING. CAC.
$7,700.00

1884-S MORGAN S$1 MS63

CHOICE SATIN WHITE AND LUSTROUS.
$57,500.00

1884-S MORGAN S$1 MS63

VERY CHOICE LUSTROUS SURFACES. WELL STRUCK. LIGHT AMBER BLUEISH TONING.
$49,500.00

1884-S MORGAN S$1 MS63

WELL STRUCK SATIN WHITE LUSTROUS SURFACES. VIRTUALLY MARKFREE. WAYNE MILLER PEDIGREE.
$59,500.00

1885 MORGAN S$1 PR67 Cameo

GEM WHITE CAMEO PROOF. ONLY 930 MINTED. JUST TWO COINS GRADED HIGHER AT PCGS.
$27,500.00

1886 MORGAN S$1 MS68

GEM CREAMY LUSTER WITH SLIGHT CRESENT TONING ON OBVERSE. ONLY A SINGLE MS68+ COIN GRADED HIGHER AT PCGS.
$17,500.00

1887 MORGAN S$1 PR66 Cameo

GEM VERY FLASHY CAMEO SURFACES. ONLY 710 STRUCK. JUST THREE COINS GRADE HIGHER AT PCGS. CAC.
$16,500.00

1889-CC MORGAN S$1 MS63 DMPL

VERY CHOICE DEEP MIRRORED PROOFLIKE.
$93,500.00

1889-CC MORGAN S$1 MS63 DMPL

VERY CHOICE DEEP MIRRORED PROOFLIKE WITH VERY FROSTED CAMEO DEVICES. THE KEY CARSON CITY DATE TO THE MORGAN SILVER DOLLAR COLLECTION. CAC.
$98,500.00