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Coins/ Dollars / Morgan Dollars/ 1886
FINENESS .900ASW 0.77344 OZT38.1 MM
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Issue RecordPhiladelphia90% Silver1 of 97 issues

1886 Morgan Dollar

1886 · Morgan Dollar
1886Photography pending
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The numbers, and what kind of numbers they are

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DELIVERED IN 1886
19,963,886
What the mint delivered to the Treasurer during that calendar year. The Mint counted deliveries, not dates — a coin delivered in January could have been struck the previous December.
DATED ATTRIBUTION
19,963,000
What the trade assigns to coins bearing this date. A modern allocation by an outside authority, not a federal record.
ESTIMATED SURVIVORS
2,000,000
An estimate of how many still exist in any grade, not a count of coins anyone has seen. The mint-state and gem figures beneath it are where a date's price actually lives.
AUCTION RECORD
$27,025
The highest public sale on record for this issue. One coin, one night — a ceiling, not a market.
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What the record asserts

The figures above are measurements. This is the proposition they support, in the Archive's own claim vocabulary — a different scale from the figure classes, because a claim can be probable where the number behind it is exact.

CLAIMAn uncirculated 1886-O Morgan dollar sold for $21 at the Dr. Wilharm auction sale in February 1922; the PCGS-reported auction record for the issue was $312,000 in September 2025.
STATUSCONFIRMED — the Archive's assessment of the proposition, not of the arithmetic.
CLAIM IDmorgan-1886-o-price-chain-1922-2025
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Specifications

SpecificationValue
DENOMINATIONDollar
DESIGNERGeorge T. Morgan
COMPOSITION90% silver, 10% copper
WEIGHT26.73 g
SILVER CONTENT0.77344 ozt
DIAMETER38.1 mm
EDGEReeded
MINTPhiladelphia
MINT MARKReverse, below the wreath bow, above the DO of DOLLAR
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The primary record

Every document behind the figures above. Where OunceDesk holds a copy, the row opens it.

MR1901 table XXXIV
Held in the Archive · behind delivered in 1886
PCGS CoinFacts no. 7166
External authority — not held by OunceDesk · behind dated attribution
PCGS CoinFacts
External authority — not held by OunceDesk · behind estimated survivors
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