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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 157135, member: 112&quot;]From the sounds of your post you don&#039;t reallu understand what a GSA holder is - <a href="http://www.coinresource.com/articles/gsa.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinresource.com/articles/gsa.htm" rel="nofollow">Click Here</a> - for an explanation.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now, if a coin in a GSA holder is sent in for grading, NGC is the only grading company that will leave the coin in the original GSA holder and grade it. All of the other grading companies remove the coin from the GSA holder and place it in one of their slabs. To some collectors this removes or destroys some of the collectibility of the item. The tend to look at the GSA holder in the same way as they look at original mint packaging and find it highly desirable. To some extent this is because, like mint &amp; Proof sets, a large number of the coins have been removed from these original holders over the years.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many folks also don&#039;t realize that there the vast majority of coins sold by the GSA were struck at the Carson City mint and there was 3 diferent types of GSA holders. Nor do they realize that not all coins were Morgan dollars, some Peace dollars were also sold in GSA holders. A great deal of information about the different types of packaging and images of them can be found the following site - <a href="http://www.gfl.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.gfl.com/" rel="nofollow">GSA Dollars</a>. A listing of the different dates and mints in GSA holders can also be found there.</p><p><br /></p><p>There were approximately 3 million silver dollars sold in the GSA sales. The known numbers for most of the CC dollars is as follows - </p><p><br /></p><p>1878CC - 61,000 </p><p>1879CC - 4,100 </p><p>1880CC - 131,500 </p><p>1881CC - 147,500 </p><p>1882CC - 605,000 </p><p>1883CC - 755,500 </p><p>1884CC - 962,600 </p><p>1885CC - 148,300 </p><p>1890CC - 3,950 </p><p>1891CC - 5,700 </p><p><br /></p><p>The remainder consisted of approximately 125,000 circulated and uncirculated Dollars from various other mints.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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