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1885 Morgan Dollar. Meticulous strike on every device, including the hair, the breast feathers (the eagle's, not liberty's), as well as the wings and leg feathers. A simply exquisite Gem, the snow white surfaces are gyrate to-and-fro with full, starbright textured luster.
Before the working dies were used in the coining presses in the 1880s, they were hardened and tempered. Each working die in 1885 struck an average of 160,000 Morgan dollars, being impelled into the coin blank at up to 150 tons of pressure to the square inch! (By comparison, an average of up to 500,000 Peace dollars were struck per working die, because of more advanced metal technology by the 1920s and because the design was shallower with rounded lettering.)
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Santa Clara Convention Center, Great American Ballroom J, 5001 Great America Parkway, Santa Clara, California, United States
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