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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 26674723, member: 10461&quot;]<font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><b><b>United States: 1880-S silver Morgan dollar</b></b></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">NGC MS66+.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/6019821-001/66/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.ngccoin.com/certlookup/6019821-001/66/" rel="nofollow">Cert. #6019821-001</a>.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><a href="https://en.numista.com/1492" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.numista.com/1492" rel="nofollow">Numista-1492</a>, Krause-Mishler-110.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Mintage: 8,900,000.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">Ex- Michael Swoveland, dba <a href="https://www.wnccoins.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.wnccoins.com/" rel="nofollow">WNC Coins, LLC</a>, Asheville, NC, 31 July 2024.&nbsp; Purchased in the slab, but subsequently reholdered.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_dollar" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan_dollar" rel="nofollow">Morgan dollar</a> (1878-1921) is perhaps the quintessential United States coin and one of the most widely collected.&nbsp; You probably don&#039;t need me to tell you how enormously popular they are.&nbsp; While I like them well enough, I&#039;ve never been a diehard enthusiast like so many folks are.&nbsp; I am merely a Type collector, so I only need <i>one</i> for my collection.&nbsp; If you&#039;re only going to have one, it should be a high grade example, because Morgan dollars are, after all, readily available and affordable in high grade.&nbsp; This MS66+ example is an 1880-S, one of the most common dates seen in Gem grade.&nbsp; The 1880-S and 1881-S dates from San Francisco just happen to come really nice most of the time, and are relatively affordable, even in loftier grades like this.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">I bought this coin in the NGC MS66+ slab, but sent it back to NGC for Photovision imaging, as I wanted nice pictures of it without having those white slab prongs in the way.&nbsp; So they cracked it out, photographed it in the raw, then reholdered it with the same grade and certification number.&nbsp; While this is a very common coin from a date that is very common in nice grades, it is the highest graded Morgan I have owned to date.&nbsp; I may one day replace it with a DMPL (Deep Mirror Prooflike) coin, because I like those, but until then, this one is plenty nice enough to be my single type example.</font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5">[ATTACH=full]1702029[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1702030[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1702031[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1702032[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1702033[/ATTACH] </font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #ffffff">037400</span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><br /></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"></font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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