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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dcarr, post: 24547706, member: 4781&quot;]On the occasion of the first striking of silver dollars at the Denver Mint in 1921, the first 100 coins were set aside for special handling. A Mr. C. W. Cowell apparently had some connection to Thomas Annear, superintendent of the Denver Mint at the time.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first two coins were not engraved and were sent to US Mint headquarters in Washington DC for inspection and assay. Those two coins were subsequently given to the two Colorado senators. The Sentors donated one to the Colorado School of Mines and the other to the Colorado Historical Society. Both of those coins are presently unaccounted for, and there is no way to positively identify them other than being an early die state.</p><p><br /></p><p>The next 10 coins were purchased directly from the Denver Mint by Mr Cowell. He had them engraved (outside the mint) so as to identify them. Cowell originally had plans to get #3 through #100 engraved. But the engraving (by hand) proved to be arduous and error-prone (spelling errors). So only #3 through #12 were engraved. The coins #13 through #100 were not purchased by Cowell and they were likely mixed in with regular issue coins and released into circulation as any other.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 10 engraved coins were consigned by Cowell to a B. Max Mehl auction of December 1923:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.moonlightmint.com/coin_pics/morg_1921-D_engraved_mehl.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In the 1980s and 1990s a couple these sold at various auctions in the range of about $3,000 to $5,000 each. Coin #12 was in the inventory of dealer Julian Leidman when it was stolen, and then later recovered. It was offered for sale for a time. They don&#039;t appear very often. Two of them were sold in different Heritage Auctions in 2014:</p><p><br /></p><p>#9 April 2014, $11,867.50</p><p><a href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/morgan-dollars/silver-and-related-dollars/a/1204-5045.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/morgan-dollars/silver-and-related-dollars/a/1204-5045.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515" rel="nofollow">https://coins.ha.com/itm/morgan-dollars/silver-and-related-dollars/a/1204-5045.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515</a></p><p><br /></p><p>#3 June 2014, $13,512.50</p><p><a href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/morgan-dollars/silver-and-related-dollars/a/1206-4715.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://coins.ha.com/itm/morgan-dollars/silver-and-related-dollars/a/1206-4715.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515" rel="nofollow">https://coins.ha.com/itm/morgan-dollars/silver-and-related-dollars/a/1206-4715.s?ic4=ListView-ShortDescription-071515</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Since the 1923 Mehl auction, all but one of the 10 engraved coins had made a recorded appearance somewhere. Coin #7 had been missing since 1923, until it turned up in a Colorado coin shop last year (in 2022). Here it is:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.moonlightmint.com/coin_pics/morg_engraved_obv.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.moonlightmint.com/coin_pics/morg_engraved_rev.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://www.moonlightmint.com/coin_pics/morg_engraved_let.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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