Excuse my naivete on this subject but is there anything better than a Morgan silver dollar minted at the Carson City mint? I mean there are a number of New Orleans silver dollars that ppl collect but I am not aware of anything as special as a CC. Please feel free to share a key date or something else that tops a CC.
I think capped bust halves are better, but then again I have not got into the copper so I think they might have some opinions on the subject
Tops how as the 1893 O has a mintage of 300,000 and the 1893 S a mintage of 77,000. compared to the 1993 CC 677,000. but the 93 S is a huge KEY coin as compared to the value of the 93 O to the value of the 93 cc. 93 O in VF-20 $400.00 93 CC in VF-20 $600.00 as per red book 2009. another sleeper to me is the 1888 s only 657,000 but only worth $200.00 in VF-20 1893 Mintage 378,000 VF-20 240.00
There are certain dates where Morgans from other mints are very rare. Do you have a copy of the Redbook? If not, you should. I contains all the mintage numbers for the different dates/mint marks.
For some reason, CC Morgan's are held up on a pedestal. Many of them are rare, but not all are. There are several key dates from the Morgan series that were minted at other mints and are worth far more. A couple examples include the 1893-S, and 1894.
CC Morgans are neat, but not rare as all have six figure mintages. The Seated CC dollars are certainly more scarce.
The big appeal for the CC Morgans is that they relate directly to the Comstock silver lode. This was the USA's first major deposit of silver ore discovered. Its location was Virginia City, Nevada near Carson City, and it was actively mined from mid 1850's through the mid 1870's, you can check for exact dates. This is why Nevada is called the Silver State. So this was a big deal in the west. Like others have said, there are keys dates that were minted at other places, there are rarer Morgans from other mints. Its that search for American silver and gold and also the legend of the west that leads collectors to focus in on the Carson City mint. Well this is my opinion at least
I like CC's just because of the old west feel. Much rougher and tougher than the big city's back east. There are more rare dates from other mints as others have mentioned but they don't have the aura the CC's do.
This is pretty much the case. The only CC Morgan that is extremely rare is the 1889-CC which is one of the true keys to the series. The others aren't too bad overall.
ALSO, THE MORGAN IS VERY HIGH UP ON THE LADDER AS TO BE CONSIDERED THE MOST BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED SILVER DOLLAR.(sorry for the use of capitals).
That's not completely true. Many of the CC years have mintage's well over 1 million while there are some O dates that don't. 1893-CC has more than double the mintage of the 1893-O. The CC minted coins tend to have a lower than average mintage across the series...but they certainly don't have a "low mintage" all the time. The only CC Morgan's that have considerably low mintage's are the 1881-CC, 1885-CC and 1889-CC.
#1. Don't forget, it's NOT how many were struck, but it's how many currently are known to exist. The Pittman Act resulted in more than 270,000,000 Morgans being melted. That made a LOT of the production figures not representative. #2. The 1893-S Morgan is considered the key to the set, although there are others that are expensive to acquire. The 1894 is one that comes to mind.
I would say this series has 3 key coins in all conditions. Those being the 1889-CC, 1893-S, and 1894.
Another reason for the CC mystique is because before 1963 they WERE all very scarce to rare coins, especially in better condition. Why? Because most of the CC dollars were never released into circulation. It was a mark of distinction to have the CC dollars even in circulated condition in your collection. Then came the geat Treasury silver dollar draw down and some of the CC dollars come out of the vaults. Then when the dollar exchange was ended and they did an inventory of what was left they found they had over three million CC dollars still in the vault! In the case of the 84-CC over 3/4ths of the entire mintage was still in the Treasury vault 80 years later. this has resulted in these formerly RARE coins now being readily available, and in high grade! What's not to love about that? (Unless you owned them BEFORE they were discovered.)
I'm taking my to CC in two weeks and then on to the Reno air races the following day. Should be fun and I expect the best of scenery.
