Morgan Silver Dollar
1878-CC Morgan Silver Dollar. MS-65 (PCGS). CAC. OGH.
Fully struck with intense mint luster on bright, brilliant surfaces. Writing in our August 2012 catalog for the Battle Born Collection, Carson City Mint expert Rusty Goe reports: "By the end of February 1878, Treasury Secretary John Sherman had already issued instructions to the San Francisco and Carson City mints to discontinue the receipt of silver bullion deposits for return in trade dollars (the Philadelphia Mint had ceased taking deposits for trade dollars earlier). Meanwhile, the three working mints had received orders to prepare at once to begin the coinage of the new silver dollars, which had been authorized by the passage of the Bland-Allison Act (or Act of February 28, 1878)." By year's end the Nevada facility had struck 2,212,000 of the new silver dollar. Popular as the first CC-Mint Morgan dollar, the 1878-CC is also one of the scarcer dates from the 1878 to 1885 era in the finest Mint State grades.
PCGS# 7080. NGC ID: 253M.
From the Larry H. Miller Collection.
Estimate: $2000