1889-CC $1 Morgan Silver Dollar PCGS AU53

Heritage Auctions writes in 2024: “Circulated examples of the 1889-CC can be found, but problem-free midgrade (and especially high-end AU) examples are scarce and hotly contested.”

Here is a rare and very desirable piece to add to your collection. Please review the photos of this Old West classic. PCGS has graded 294 as AU53 with 962 finer. Collector’s Universe prices this issue at $10,500.00 in AU53.

After an interruption of four years, silver dollars were again being produced in Carson City in 1889. David Bowers writes, "The 1889-CC dollar is one of the great keys in the Morgan series, and among the Carson City issues it is far and away the most elusive." Unlike many of the earlier "CC" dollars, however, a vast majority of the 1889-CC silver dollars were paid out, mostly in 1889. The original mintage was 350,000. Silver dollars were a valued instrument of commerce in the Old West.

The Carson City Mint, where this great rarity was struck in 1889. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.