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1879-CC Morgan $1. Capped Die PCGS MS65

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1879-CC Morgan $1. Capped Die PCGS MS65
<b>1879-CC Morgan Dollar. Capped die. PCGS graded MS65 VAM-3. Top 100 Variety.</b> Beginning with the first month of production of the newly authorized Morgan dollar design in 1878, Mint staff at all the mints were under pressure to strike &#36;2 million per month in silver dollars. This was a demanding goal, when an account is taken into the fact that in the earlier seated Liberty dollar type of 1840 to 1873, the greatest mintage for any one year was slightly over one million. Now, the same quota shrunk to about two weeks&#39; work under the new regime. Making matters worse, dies unpredictably shattered after very little use in the coin presses, and the mint apparatus itself was notorious for malfunctioning. This especially plagued the smaller branch mint at Carson City, Nevada. And yet, a few bold coins did get released to the banks, as this lovely 1879-CC gem shows: A highly lustrous Gem that has rich white patina, somewhat of a prooflike look to the fields, and a mostly razor sharp strike.

By all accounts, George T. Morgan was delighted with the portrait of Miss Anna Willess Williams he created for this coin. He said that her profile was the most nearly perfect he had seen in England or America &#40;Morgan was born in Birmingham, England in 1845&#41;. Williams&#39; complexion was fair, her eyes blue, her nose Grecian and her hair, said to be her &#34;crowning glory,&#34; was of golden color, abundant in quantity and light of texture. It was worn in a coil underneath the liberty cap on the silver dollar he designed, in some ways resembling Morgan&#39;s coiled hair design for one type of the &#36;4 gold piece, or &#34;Stella.&#34;

GEM BRILLIANT UNCIRCULATED 1879-CC SILVER DOLLAR <b>&#40;PCGS # 7088&#41;</b>

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