Morgan Dollar. One of the most beautiful coins I have collected. Minted from 1878 to 1921, this dollar, surprisingly, has been largely overlooked since its entry into circulation. In 1873, the current dollar, the sitting Liberty Dollar, was passed out of existence. The Morgan Dollar was the largest silver coin made in Nevada (at the […]
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Opinion and Editorial
Remember the Last Real Silver Dollars, the Kind Relatives Gave You for Your Birthday ?
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Oct
Oct
In case you didn’t know it, there is no silver in the general circulation Eisenhower dollar coins of 1971-78, nor the new Presidential $1 coins, or their small sized predecessors, the 2000-to-date Sacagawea ‘golden dollars,’ or the 1979-81 Susan B. Anthony dollar coins, which were resumed for a single year in 1999. I hasten to […]
27
Mar
Mar
Almost everyone that picks up a silver dollar just instinctively holds it, turns it over, pinches in two fingers and studies it. Those simple actions alone can devalue a coin immediately, due to the fact that the oil in the skin of your hand will etch a fingerprint in that coin…some will be visibile immediately, […]