1884-CC $1 Morgan Silver Dollar PCGS MS66

Here's a great collectible from the famed Carson City Mint. PCGS has graded 2,184 in MS66, with 589 finer.

A coin such as this one offered by AUCM evokes the storied history of the Wild West: the silver mines and silver barons, as well as the miners who worked the mines. Close your eyes and drift back in time. Saloon doors swing open as the tang of whiskey in the air hits you. A player piano is banging  out a popular tune--and the distinctive clank of silver dollars is heard as they are dropped on a wooden bar to pay for shots of whiskey. Those are Carson City silver dollars you hear.

Miners who worked at the Comstock Lode, the biggest silver mine in U.S. history, and where the silver for this coin was extracted from the earth.

From among the Carson City Morgan dollars, the 1884-CC is one of the most common. This issue was seen to be a major rarity before the GSA sales of the 1970s and 1980. The reason for this is that the GSA had a whopping 962 original bags of that date--962,000 coins--which was more than 84% of the entire original production!

Those GSA sales made the 1884-CC silver dollar quite easy to find in mint state through MS65. This issue is one of three coins that form a trinity of similar "CC" dollars (1882-CC, 1883-CC, and 1884-CC) that are generally well-struck and offer, according to Bowers, "beautifully deep frosty lustre." The 1884-CC issue is the most widely available of all the Carson City silver dollars.