Brilliant Uncirculated Morgan Silver Dollar Collection

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Own every mint mark of America's most coveted collectible coin � including the scarce Denver and Carson City Morgan's. You get ten Morgan's, all minted of solid .900 Fine Silver. Most are over 100 years old, and all are in Brilliant Uncirculated condition! This magnificent collection includes the first and last years of issue�the extremely scarce CC-mint mark, carried by only 2% of all Morgan's ever struck�the 1900 Millennium Morgan and the only D-mint mark Morgan, struck in 1921. Some Carson City Morgan's have sold for hundreds, even thousands of dollars each! All are individually encapsulated for protection and presented in a beautiful 10" x 12" velvet-lined wooden display chest. Includes a Certificate of Authenticity.

Genuine Silver US Coins
Includes 10 Brilliant Uncirculated Silver Morgan Dollars Showing Reverse
Collector Display Box
Certificate of Authenticity
1 Year Manufacturer Warranty

Morgan Silver Dollar
Morgan Silver Dollars were minted from 1878 through 1904, then again for one year only in 1921. They are struck of .900 Fine Silver.
Coin Diameter: 38.1mm
In 1878, under pressure from Western Silver interests, Congress mandated the purchase of silver bullion to make Morgan Silver Dollars.
President Hayes vetoed the striking of the coin, but Congress passed it over his veto-then presented the first coin struck to the unwilling president.
The first Morgan Dollar ever struck can be found in the Rutherford B. Hayes Library and Museum in Freemont, Ohio.
The �Liberty Head� Dollar is more popularly named after its designer, George T. Morgan, chief engraver at the U.S. Mint. He was formerly a student at the Royal Mint in London.
Morgans were struck at the Philadelphia, New Orleans, Carson City, Denver and San Francisco mints.
The model for Morgan�s Liberty Head was a Philadelphia school teacher named Anna Willess Williams. She sat for him on several occasions only after he promised to keep her modeling strictly secret. In those days respectable ladies could not be artists� models. Despite all her precautions, her identity was eventually revealed by a newspaperman. Miss Williams, as she feared, lost her job.
When Jesse James and his brother Frank robbed a bank, the loot they carried off was most often Morgan Silver Dollars.
The U.S. financed the Spanish American War by striking Morgan Silver Dollars under the War Revenue Act of 1898.
In 1904, half of the U.S. Government�s $10 million down payment on the Panama Canal was made in Silver Dollars. (Few found their way back to the States, and silver coins became the backbone of the Panama economy for many years afterward! This helps explain why uncirculated 1903 and 1904 coins are so scarce).
Silver dollars were very popular in the South after the Civil War because newly freed slaves were illiterate and refused paper money in any form. Also, the memory of the worthless paper money of the confederacy was fresh in the minds of everyone, so the metal dollars rook on a special importance.
Coinage of Silver Dollars was suspended after 1904 when the bullion supply became exhausted. In 1918 over 270 million were melted down for their precious metal under provisions of the Pittman Act. Less than 17% of all Morgans are said to exist today.

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