United States
1 Dollar "Morgan Dollar" · “Morgan Dollar”
United States · 1878–2023 · Silver
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The Morgan Dollar: the coin Congress was forced to mint
In 1878 the U.S. Treasury did not want to make silver dollars. Congress made it do so anyway — to prop up the price of silver for Western mining states. The result was the Morgan Dollar, a coin that nobody really needed and almost everybody now collects.
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