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Coins/ Dollars / Morgan Dollars/ 1895

FINENESS .900ASW 0.77344 OZT38.1 MM

Overview History Mints Key Dates Varieties Collecting Grading Checklist References

Issue RecordKEYPhiladelphia90% Silver1 of 97 issues

1895 Morgan Dollar

The 'King of the Morgans.' No authenticated 1895 business strike is known today. Mint ledgers record 12,000; whether they were struck as dated 1895 coins, struck and later melted, or never actually coined remains an open question. The collectible reality is settled either way: a date set runs through one of ~880 proofs.

The numbers, and what kind of numbers they are

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DELIVERED IN 1895

12,880

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

—

What the trade assigns to coins bearing this date. A modern allocation by an outside authority, not a federal record.

ESTIMATED SURVIVORS

400

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

$150,000

The highest public sale on record for this issue. One coin, one night — a ceiling, not a market.

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

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 1895

PCGS CoinFacts lists NO 1895 Philadelphia circulation strike. Only the proof (mintage 880) is catalogued.
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PCGS CoinFacts
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