As Americans and vivid collectors search for coins to collect, the Morgan silver dollar is among the most common collected coin in America. Because of its rarity of certain years and different mints, there are all sorts of Morgan silver dollars that you can find as you are collecting coins.
When the Sherman silver purchase act happed in 1890, there was a mass amount of silver coming into the United States. With that silver being imported, the government used much of it to produce our currency at the time. Since the beginning silver was a precious metal used to making coins and silver dollars. The Morgan silver dollar was minted between 1878 and 1921. The act included over 4.5 million troy ounces of silver being imported each month! Though it did not last for very long, the act was repealed in 1893. From the years the Sherman silver act was in place, the manufacturing side sure kept busy. The president at the time, Rutherford B. Hayes actually vetoed certain silver bills which made the production of silver dollars harder when he was in office.
Who designed the morgan silver dollar?
The Morgan silver dollar was named after its designer, George T. Morgan. When congress asked designers to make a concept for the next coin to go into production, many designed coins that might have been used for currency but George Morgan was the winner of the final concept. Through the final design, it was used to produce the 1878 Morgan silver dollar. As the years went on more coins were minted and different little alterations were made to the silver dollar. At the time of the concept of the design, it was decided that the Morgan silver dollar was to be made of silver because the government has a 16:1 ratio for silver to gold. Though gold was precious as well, large amounts of silver were used.
The first place that the morgan silver dollar was minted was in Philadelphia calling it the "Philadelphia mint". The coin was first given to Rutherford b. Hayes to inspect, the second being delivered to congress. The mint director Henry Linderman was the first one to inspect the prototypes of the Morgan silver dollar. As Linderman approved the prototype of the silver dollar, he wanted to involve the western region of the United States in minting the soon to be rare processions.
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