I am in the process, near the end, at last, of a database of US Coin Mintage figures from Half Cents to Dollars, no gold yet, but all silver, including ASEs and 5oz ATBs. Not sure exactly what I'll do with it, but it's something I've wanted to do for a long time. One thing I noticed today, was that I could give myself a neat reference tool for any given type coin showing mintage figures sorted by lowest first. I buy a lot of Morgans online and even if I have the mintage figure for that year and mint mark, I then need to figure how scarce that is compared to the rest of the whole series. I know people who seem to have those numbers in their heads, and I bow to them, but they would have no need for my database now, would they? Anyway, I figured I'd pass along a sample and see what comments it might draw. Any value? This is just the first page on the Morgans...
The unfortunate thing about listing the mintages for most Morgan Dollars is that about 270 million were melted down as a result of the Pittman Act of 1918. Chris
Your chart is original mintage. The more important figure in my opinion, is the surviving mintage. Meaning the number available as we speak. There are also many conditional rarities in the Morgan series. Some of these have fairly high mintages, but low mintages at a certain grade. Making them sought after and valuable. That being said. You are on the right track, and there is certainly nothing wrong with your chart, or any of the coins in it.
those numbers are a best guess... ngc and pcgs census can help on the high end grades maybe... ebay sales of individual coins... as well... those figures as percentages against total mint figures then compared against price variations... then we could ask the Chinese government for the number of counterfeits of each that they have put out?
Well, we_do_know that some pretty high percentages of the total 1880's mintage at Carson City was released in the GSA sales, the vast majority Mint State. 1881-1884 each had at least half of their total mintages released in those sales, and 1884-CC had 85% of its' total mintage released. That's why you can have a Mint State Carson City coin from that period for $200 in MS63-64.
