1880-S $1 Morgan Silver Dollar PCGS MS68

Imagine having an MS68 Morgan dollar in your collection. Well, here's your chance! PCGS has awarded the superior grade of MS68 to 284 examples of the 1880-S Morgan dollar, with only 41 finer.

What collectors love about San Francisco Mint Morgan dollars, especially the 1880-S, is their consistently superior quality. They have a "WOW" factor that is undeniable. When you walk a coin show and one grabs your attention, pulling you to that table, 9 times out of 10 it will be an S-mint Morgan dollar! This specimen would be right at home in a collection of Morgan dollars with superior grades. Or it could be a super-high graded piece as the centerpiece of a collection!

The Old San Francisco Mint, also called the Granite Lady, where this beauty was struck in 1880.

David Bowers tells us, "The 1880-S is a delightful Morgan dollar, combining usually-excellent strike and lustre.... The majority of Mint State pieces in existence today were released during the dispersal of the Treasury hoard [of] 1962-1964." Many of the early S-mint Morgan dollars were produced and summarily stored in 1000-piece canvas mint bags, never to see the light of day until many years later. These dollars were not distributed to the public until starting in 1913. Many were paid out over the years, especially the 1950s. However, reports John Kamin in 1971 in The Forecaster, about 1,600,000 of them were sold during 1962-1964.