1880-CC $1 Morgan Silver Dollar PCGS XF45 (CAC)

Here’s a more affordable example for the Morgan dollar enthusiast in its assigned grade of XF45. Purchase this coin and you will have a tangible legacy of the Old West. People of that time and place used coins—not paper money—in their day-to-day business transactions. That was especially true of Carson City Mint issues.

Carson City Morgan dollars are always in great demand. There are wonderful reasons for this: the romance and history of the Old West and the Comstock Lode, the short-lived history of the Carson City Mint, and the great popularity of the coins themselves. PCGS has graded 61 as XF45, with 15,928 finer. In CAC, there are 4 in XF45 with 1,468 finer. The total original mintage of this issue was 591,000.

The Carson City Mint, where this great collectible was produced in 1880. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.