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| 1878 7TF REV 78 |
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$1 1878 7TF REV OF 78
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1878 7TF REV 1878 Morgan Dollar
Designer/Engraver: George T Morgan
Mint: Philadelphia
Mintage: 4,900,000
Year in History: July 4 – A match race between champion thoroughbred racehorses Ten Broeck and Mollie McCarty draws more than 30,000 fans to Louisville and inspires the folk song, Molly and Tenbrooks.
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| 1879S |
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$1 1879 S
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1879-S REV 1879
Designer/Engraver: George T Morgan
Mintage: 9,110,000
Year in History: October 22 – Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric light bulb (it lasts 13½ hours before burning out).
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| 1881 |
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$1 1881
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1881 Morgan Dollar
Designer/Engraver: George T Morgan
Mintage: 9,163,984
Toning description: Double sided toning on this coin. Reverse shows nice rainbow coloring. Obverse is 100% covered in nice colors.
Year in History: April 28 – Billy the Kid escapes from his 2 jailers at the Lincoln County Jail in Mesilla, New Mexico, killing James Bell and Robert Ollinger before stealing a horse and riding out of town.
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| 1881S |
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$1 1881 S
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1881-S Morgan Dollar
Designer/Engraver: George T Morgan
Mintage: 12,760,000
Toning description: Beautiful rainbow starting at the bottom of the Obverse turns into a dark blue purple mix.
Year in History: September 19 – U.S. President James A. Garfield dies eleven weeks after being shot. Vice President Chester A. Arthur becomes the 21st President of the United States.
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| 1881CC |
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$1 1881 CC GSA HOARD
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1881-CC Morgan Dollar
Designer/Engraver: George T Morgan
Mintage: 296,000
Toning description: GSA with a touch of toning on the reverse.
Year in History: July 14 – Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.
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| 1882 |
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$1 1882
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1882 Morgan Dollar
Designer/Engraver: George T Morgan
Mintage: 11,101,100
Toning description: Sky blue and purple end of roll toning on the Obverse. The reverse has a blue ring surrounding a light red/rose color. The wife bought this beauty at the Whitman Show in Nashville (22 May). Is she awesome or what?
Year in History: August 20 – Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky's “1812 Overture” debuts in Moscow.
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| 1882S |
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$1 1882 S
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1882-S Morgan Dollar
Designer/Engraver: George T Morgan
Mintage: 9,205,000
Toning description: Miss Liberty is covered with red, yellow, blue and green toning over her. There is some light brown toning on the reverse rim.
Year in History: September 4 – Thomas Edison flips the switch to the first commercial electrical power plant in history, lighting one square mile of lower Manhattan. This is considered by many as the day that began the electrical age.
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| 1882-S |
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$1 1882 S
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Designer/Engraver: George T Morgan
Mintage: 9,205,000
Toning description: Reverse has a real sharp cresent on the lower right side. The cresent has blue, green, burnt amber as well as brown.
Year in History: April 3 – Outlaw Robert Newton “Bob” Ford kills fellow outlaw Jesse James with a shot to the head.
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| 1883O |
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$1 1883 O
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1883-O Morgan Dollar
Designer/Engraver: George T Morgan
Mintage: 8,725,000
Toning description: This is a beautiful coin. Toning is on the reverse. This coin has red, orange, yellow, purple, green, blue, and burnt orange on the Obverse rim.
Year in History: November 3 – American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the Po-et" gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves an incriminating clue that eventually leads to his capture.
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| 1883CC |
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$1 1883 CC
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1883-CC Morgan Dollar
Designer/Engraver: George T Morgan
Mintage: 1,204,000
Toning description: Very nice crescent toning on Obverse. Has slight toning around the rim of the Reverse.
Year in History: August 26–28 – Krakatoa or Krakatau volcano erupts at 10:02 AM (local time); 163 villages are destroyed, 36,380 killed.
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| 1884 |
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$1 1884
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1884 Morgan Dollar
Designer/Engraver: George T Morgan
Mint: Philadelphia
Mintage: 14,070,875
Year in History: March 8 – Susan B. Anthony addresses the U.S. House Judiciary Committee arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote.
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| 1884CC |
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$1 1884 CC GSA HOARD
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1884-CC Morgan Dollar
Designer/Engraver: George T Morgan
Mintage: 1,136,000
Toning description: Nice GSA Morgan. Has nice yellow and orange toning on the Obverse.
Year in History: December 1 – American Old West: Near Frisco, New Mexico, deputy sheriff Elfego Baca holds off a gang of 80 Texan cowboys who want to kill him for arresting cowboy Charles McCarthy (the cowboys were terrorizing the area's Hispanos and Baca was working against them).
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| 1884O |
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$1 1884 O
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1884-O Morgan Dollar
Designer/Engraver: George T Morgan
Mintage: 9,730,000
Toning description: Fantastic yellow, green and blue toning on the Obverse. Light red toning on the reverse.
Year in History: May 1 – The eight-hour workday is first proclaimed by the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions in the United States. May 1, called May Day or Labour Day, is now a holiday recognized in almost every industrialized country.
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| 1884-O |
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$1 1884 O
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Designer/Engraver: George T Morgan
Mintage: 9,730,000
Toning description: Obverse contains large amount of purple and green. Has to be the wildest looking coin the collection.
Year in History: August 5 – The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island in New York Harbor.
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| 1885 |
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$1 1885
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1885 Morgan Dollar
Designer/Engraver: George T Morgan
Mintage: 17,787,930
Toning description: Rainbow toned bottom shiny black toning on the top of the Obverse. Light golden color along bottom rim of the reverse.
Year in History: September 12 – Arbroath 36-0 Bon Accord, the highest score ever in professional soccer.
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| 1885O |
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$1 1885 O
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1885-O Morgan Dollar
Designer/Engraver: George T Morgan
Mintage: 9,185,000
Toning description: Beautiful rainbow toning on Obverse, deep reds and blues on the reverse.
Year in History: July 6 – Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
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| 1886 |
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$1 1886
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| 1886 |
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$1 1886
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1886 Morgan Dollar
Designer/Engraver: George T Morgan
Mint: Philadelphia
Mintage: 19,963,886
Year in History: May 8 – Pharmacist Dr. John Stith Pemberton invents a carbonated beverage that would be named Coca-Cola.
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| 1902O |
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$1 1902 O
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1902-O Morgan Dollar
Designer/Engraver: George T Morgan
Mintage: 8,636,000
Toning description: Toned all over the Obverse. Has every color of the rainbow.
Year in History: January 1 – The first college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
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| 1887 |
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$1 1887
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1887 Morgan Dollar
Designer/Engraver: George T Morgan
Mintage: 20,290,710
Toning description: Reverse has a nice cover of blue, red, orange, purple, green and yellow.
Year in History: July 1 – Construction of the metal structure of the Eiffel Tower starts in Paris, France
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| 1888 |
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$1 1888
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1888 Morgan Dollar
Designer/Engraver: George T Morgan
Mintage: 19,183,832
Toning description: Sharp crescent on left side of Obverse and light brownish toning along the rim on reverse.
Year in History: Jack the Ripper terrorizes London’s night life killing five prostitutes.
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| 1899O |
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$1 1899 O
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1899-O Morgan Dollar
Designer/Engraver: George T Morgan
Mint: New Orleans
Mintage: 12,290,000
Date in History: April 15 – Students at the University of California, Berkeley steal the Stanford Axe from Stanford University yelling at leaders following a baseball game, thus establishing the Axe as a symbol of the rivalry between the schools.
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| 1887 |
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$1 1887
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1887 Morgan Dollar Designer/Engraver: George T Morgan Mintage: 20,290,710 Toning description: Reverse has a nice cover of blue, red, orange, purple, green and yellow. Year in History: July 1 – Construction of the metal structure of the Eiffel Tower starts in Paris, France
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| 1884-CC |
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$1 1884 CC
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1884-CC Morgan Dollar
Designer/Engraver: George T Morgan
Mintage: 1,136,000
Toning description: Beautiful crescent toning with a wide variety of colors (yellow, green, blue, brown, red).
Year in History: December 1 – American Old West: Near Frisco, New Mexico, deputy sheriff Elfego Baca holds off a gang of 80 Texan cowboys who want to kill him for arresting cowboy Charles McCarthy (the cowboys were terrorizing the area's Hispanos and Baca was working against them).
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| 1878 8TF |
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$1 1878 8TF
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1878 Morgan Dollar
Designer/Engraver: George T Morgan
Mint: Philadelphia
Mintage: 749,500
Year in History: June 22 – Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld leaves Karlskrona on a voyage that will make him the first to navigate the Northern Sea Route, a shipping lane from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean along the Siberian coast.
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