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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Asher, post: 7446880, member: 80285&quot;]The main history that I remember about the coinage of the Morgan Dollar was Congress mandating the minting of a silver dollar via the so-called Bland-Allison Act in 1878.&nbsp; The West had a lot of silver and they wanted to sell it to the US government.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m curious why no half-dollars (or quarters and dimes for that matter) were minted (the law only specified silver dollars).&nbsp; From my reading, people hated the large and heavy dollar coin.&nbsp; The half-dollar was popular and circulated heavily until the 1950&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p>From the book <i>The History of United States Coinage</i>, &quot;In 1877 pattern half dollars were. issued in an unprecedented variety of designs.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>- President Hayes veto message: <a href="https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/february-8-1878-veto-bland-allison-act" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/february-8-1878-veto-bland-allison-act" rel="nofollow">https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/february-8-1878-veto-bland-allison-act</a></p><p>- <a href="https://www.pcgs.com/news/whatever-happened-to-the-half-dollar" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pcgs.com/news/whatever-happened-to-the-half-dollar" rel="nofollow">https://www.pcgs.com/news/whatever-happened-to-the-half-dollar</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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