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<p>[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 803050, member: 66"]I'm not aware of any special proof Morgans being struck at Denver. there definitely aren't any D over S Morgans. What I think they are actually referring to were the specially engraved 1921-D Morgan dollars. Supposedly the first 100 coins struck in Denver had a special engraving done on the obverse that "This was number X of the first 100 Morgan dollars to be struck at the Denver Mint."</p><p><br /></p><p>It is not known if all 100 coins were engraved, I think there are only something like four of them known to exist today and I think the highest number engraved on one of the coins seen so far is either 12 or 19. I believe one of them was in the group of coins stolen from Julian Liedman. I know at least one of them turned up in a batch of silver being sold for scrap during the big melt in 1979.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Conder101, post: 803050, member: 66"]I'm not aware of any special proof Morgans being struck at Denver. there definitely aren't any D over S Morgans. What I think they are actually referring to were the specially engraved 1921-D Morgan dollars. Supposedly the first 100 coins struck in Denver had a special engraving done on the obverse that "This was number X of the first 100 Morgan dollars to be struck at the Denver Mint." It is not known if all 100 coins were engraved, I think there are only something like four of them known to exist today and I think the highest number engraved on one of the coins seen so far is either 12 or 19. I believe one of them was in the group of coins stolen from Julian Liedman. I know at least one of them turned up in a batch of silver being sold for scrap during the big melt in 1979.[/QUOTE]
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