The Morgan Dollar was minted from 1878 to 1904 and again for one more year in 1921. It has a fineness of .900 giving a total silver content of 0.77344 troy ounces (24.057 grams) per coin.
In death, as in life, the Morgan Dollar was ignored by the public.
The total of 411,000 silver dollars – weighing 11 tons – were put for auction and fetched $7.3 million, the largest documented numismatic transaction in history
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