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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;tibor, post: 25369212, member: 73385&quot;]A very nice gift to be sure. Here is the weight info on Morgan dollars.</p><p>The <b>Morgan dollar</b> is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar_coin" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_dollar_coin" rel="nofollow">United States dollar coin</a> minted from 1878 to 1904, in 1921, and beginning again in 2021 as a collectible. It was the first standard silver dollar minted since the passage of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinage_Act_of_1873" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinage_Act_of_1873" rel="nofollow">Coinage Act of 1873</a>, which ended the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_silver" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_silver" rel="nofollow">free coining of silver</a> and the production of the previous design, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seated_Liberty_dollar" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seated_Liberty_dollar" rel="nofollow">Seated Liberty dollar</a>. It contained 412.5 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_grains" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_grains" rel="nofollow">Troy grains</a> of 90% pure silver (or 371.25 Troy grains = 24.057 g; 0.7734 ozt of pure silver). The coin is named after its designer, United States Mint Assistant Engraver <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_T._Morgan" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_T._Morgan" rel="nofollow">George T. Morgan</a>. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obverse_and_reverse" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obverse_and_reverse" rel="nofollow">obverse</a> depicts a profile portrait representing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_(goddess)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_(goddess)" rel="nofollow">Liberty</a>, modeled by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Willess_Williams" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Willess_Williams" rel="nofollow">Anna Willess Williams</a>, while the reverse depicts an eagle with wings outstretched. The mint mark, if present, appears on the reverse above between D and O in &quot;Dollar&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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