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Denomination:

1 Dollar (about Dollar)

Metal:

Silver

State:

USA (1776 - )

Issue year(s):

1878

Catalog reference:

KM-110 (24) Fr-b1 (11) Mont-h (4) KM-150 (1) KM-488 (1) KM-C95.3 (1)

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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Dollar History of the nameIn the 1500s, Count Hieronymus Schlick of Bohemia began minting coins known as Joachimstaler (from German thal, or nowadays usually Tal, “valley”, cognate with “dale” in English), named for Joachimstal, the valley where the silver was mined (St. Joachim’s Valley, now Jáchymov; then part of the H ...

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scroodge / Silver Dollar Silver Dollars 1794-1935The silver dollar was authorized by Congress April 2, 1792. Weight and fineness were specified at 416 grains and 892.4 fine. The first issues appeared in 1794 and until 1804 all silver dollars had the value stamped on the edge: HUNDRED CENTS, ONE DOLLAR OR UNIT. After a lapse in coinage of the plain or reeded edges and ...

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