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<p>[QUOTE="1865King, post: 7602205, member: 103207"]I was able to get one CC. However, it wasn't easy. Same crap I ran into over the last few years. </p><p><br /></p><p>When they first announced they were going to strike the Morgan dollar this year I got excited. I figured they would make a mint state and proof version. I was wrong they made 5 different mint state versions and no proof. I would have really like a proof Morgan dollar. The early Morgan proofs are expensive. Then they made the mintage at 175,000 per coin type. Five different types are unnecessary. They should have just struck one million Morgan dollars and then any collector that wanted one could get one. Or they could have produced them to demand. They do that with the bullion version of the silver eagles. </p><p><br /></p><p>The down side of what they did is that no one as far as I know has even seen a picture of one that has actually been struck. They have pretty illustrations on the mint Webb site but, that doesn't mean the coin will actually look like that. If when the one I order comes in and it looks like a 1921 Morgan dollar I'll be really pissed off. The 1921 didn't give the design justice. It looked like crap. </p><p><br /></p><p>Oh in case no one knows they are considering minting the Morgan and Peace dollars next year and possibly continuing for a number of years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="1865King, post: 7602205, member: 103207"]I was able to get one CC. However, it wasn't easy. Same crap I ran into over the last few years. When they first announced they were going to strike the Morgan dollar this year I got excited. I figured they would make a mint state and proof version. I was wrong they made 5 different mint state versions and no proof. I would have really like a proof Morgan dollar. The early Morgan proofs are expensive. Then they made the mintage at 175,000 per coin type. Five different types are unnecessary. They should have just struck one million Morgan dollars and then any collector that wanted one could get one. Or they could have produced them to demand. They do that with the bullion version of the silver eagles. The down side of what they did is that no one as far as I know has even seen a picture of one that has actually been struck. They have pretty illustrations on the mint Webb site but, that doesn't mean the coin will actually look like that. If when the one I order comes in and it looks like a 1921 Morgan dollar I'll be really pissed off. The 1921 didn't give the design justice. It looked like crap. Oh in case no one knows they are considering minting the Morgan and Peace dollars next year and possibly continuing for a number of years.[/QUOTE]
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