Lord Marcovan's "Greysilver Album" collection as of March 15, 2018

Lord Marcovan's "Greysilver Album"

This is a casual "sideline" collection I started on December 28, 2017.

Aside from a few single pieces in type sets over the years, I have never collected Morgan dollars, so I decided to give that a try, and bought this album. It's a Dansco #7172 "Silver Dollar Date Set" album, meaning it only calls for one coin per year (so a date set, but not a date-and-mint set). I'm really only interested in reasonably inexpensive circulated coins for this collection, so the "one-a-year" plan works for me. But it will still have its challenges.

The goal here is to go with original grey circulated pieces, common dates where possible, and strive for as much of a matched appearance as possible. By looking at what I've got so far, you should be able to get an idea of the sort of look I'm after.

The Peace dollars will be more difficult to find in circulated condition with a nice grey look. They're out there, but ones with the right appearance (and no problems) are sometimes one in a thousand.

The album also calls for one from each year of the Eisenhower and Susan B. Anthony dollars, though after 1976 they aren't technically "silver" dollars. I went ahead and got all those in Brilliant Uncirculated condition, since finding matched circulated coins with grey toning in these later series would be a practical impossibility. I did go with silver whenever there was a choice between silver and clad.

I figure I'll work on this set for a little while and then sell it to feed my primary Eclectic Box collection. This will be a nice little sideline to build up a little "equity" along the way towards "saving up" for a bigger-ticket purchase or two for my primary collection later.

(I'm terrible at saving for big purchases, so this is a way of doing that while still having fun on the side.)

I'll probably hang a "For Sale" sign on this fairly soon, in case anybody wants to take it over and complete what I've started, but until I do sell it, I'll keep on adding to it and maybe improving it. If it sells, great, but if not, well, then I'll keep on working on it until the album is full!

Number of coins as of this update: 27

Thanks for looking.

~Robertson ("Rob") Shinnick (aka "LordM")
Brunswick, Georgia, March 16, 2018


Dansco #7172 album

 

Page 1: Morgan dollars, 1878-1888

As of this post, I have:

• 1878 (7 TF, rev. of 1878)
• 1879
• (need 1880 - any mint)
• 1881-S
• 1882
• 1883
• (need 1884 - any mint)
• (need 1885 - any mint)
• 1886-O
• (need 1887 - any mint)
• 1888-O

 

Page 2: Morgan dollars, 1889-1899

As of this post, I have:

• 1889-O
• 1890-O
• (need 1891 - any mint)
• 1892-O
• (need 1893 - any mint)
• (need 1894 - any mint)
• (need 1895 - any mint)
• (need 1896 - any mint)
• (need 1897 - any mint)
• 1898-S
• (need 1899 - any mint)

 

Page 3: Morgan dollars, 1900-1921

As of this post, I have:

• 1900-O
• 1901-O
• (need 1902 - any mint)
• 1903
• (need 1904 - any mint)
• (need 1921 - any mint)
• (need extra coin w/ "CC" mintmark - any date)
• (need extra coin w/ "O" mintmark - any date)
• (need extra coin w/ "S" mintmark - any date)
• (need extra coin w/ "D" mintmark - any date)

 

Page 4: Peace dollars, 1921-1935

As of this post, I have:

• 1921 (high relief)
• 1922
• (need 1923 - any mint)
  
• (need 1924 - any mint)
• (need 1925 - any mint)
• (need 1926 - any mint)
• (need 1927 - any mint)
• (need 1928 - any mint)
• (need 1934 - any mint)
• (need 1935 - any mint)
• (need extra coin w/ "D" mintmark - any date)
• (need extra coin w/ "S" mintmark - any date)

 

Page 5: Eisenhower and Susan B. Anthony dollars

As of this post, I have:

(ALL the Eisenhower and Anthony dollars necessary for a year set, in BU.)

Eisenhower dollars:

• 1971-S (40% silver, MS)
• 1972-S (40% silver, MS)
• 1973-S (40% silver, MS)
• 1974-S (40% silver, MS)
• 1976-S (40% silver, MS)
• 1977-D (clad)
• 1978-D (clad)

Susan B. Anthony dollars:

• 1979-S
• 1980-S
• 1981-S
• 1999-P

 

So that's it for my debut post with this collection. In future updates, this space will show what additions were made and include my comments on recent purchases.

First impression: I just noticed that my rows of three thumbnails to a line look terrible on my phone. Wasn't thinking about the mobile implications. Oh well. Who cares? (Except me. LOL)