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Message:: [QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 1512068, member: 112"]This kind of stuff is what people always seem to remember and it is the way many think of Morgans. But it is important to understand that this only happened with a select few of the Morgan dollars. There were approx 3 million of them, and almost all of them came from the CC mint. And roughly 2.3 million of that 3 million were all from just 3 years - 1882, 1883, and 1884, all CC. All of the rest of the Morgan dollars were out there in the world someplace. The only reason I mention this is because it puts a different perspective on how we look at Morgan dollars.  Very true, as far as the comparison goes. But while there were roughly 3 million Morgans sitting in govt. vaults, there are approx.2.2 BILLION Prez. dollars sitting in govt. vaults. To help visualize that - there are almost 200,000 of those giant ballistic bags sitting around. Almost enough for every coin collector to have a bag of his own. I don't know about you guys, but I find that to be just a staggering number.[/QUOTE]