Numismatic News: Morgan and Peace Dollars, Old and New

Above, a 1921 Morgan Silver Dollar, a key date coin. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

Earlier this month, I ordered a 2021 Morgan Silver dollar and an American Silver Eagle.

The 2021 Morgan silver dollar is a centennial commemorate coin. I just checked and my coins are en route from Gallup.

Numismatic News has an article on this and the old Morgan and Peace dollars. Regular readers of this blog know that I have a big fondness for the Morgan silver dollar.

They begin it with:

In the year 2021, the United States Mint got just about every collector to sit up and take notice when they unveiled the 2021 Morgan and Peace dollars as centennial versions of the two classic series. The ever-present interest in the Morgan and Peace dollars went up a further notch and stayed there as the new versions were unveiled. To the chagrin of many in the collector community, the very next year the official word was that silver from suppliers to the Mint had been disrupted by the COVID pandemic, and there would be no Morgan and Peace dollars dated 2022. That announcement got many of us thinking that the 2021’s were going to be a one-hit wonder or the proverbial flash in the pan, and thus the dust settled a bit. But right now, the Mint is planning to release a set of 2023 Morgan and Peace dollars – probably with the same wealth of mint marks or privy marks as before – and this means we might be at the beginning of a new series. Whether this will grow over time to something as established and respected as the silver Eagles is still a mystery. But the time may indeed be ripe to look at collecting the classic Morgan and Peace dollars, or if we have already done so, at examining just what might still qualify as a good deal.

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