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It is the lowest mintage business strike Morgan dollar in the series. The 1893-S is considered to be a key date in the Morgan dollar series: examples of the coin in both mint state and in circulated condition are valuable. The high value of the coin has made it a target for counterfeiters. Many fake 1893-S Morgan dollars have been created.
The Morgan dollar is a United States dollar coin minted from 1878 to 1904, in 1921, and beginning again in 2021 as a collectible. It was the first standard silver dollar minted since the passage of the Coinage Act of 1873, which ended the free coining of silver and the production of the previous design, the Seated Liberty dollar.
The non-acceptance of $1 coins in the United States contrasts with the practice in most other developed countries where denominations of similar value exist only in coins; for example, the lowest-value pound sterling, euro and Japanese yen notes are the £5 note, €5 note and 1000 yen note respectively; each is worth more than US$5.
An 1883 postal note of Homer Lee Bank Note Co., Philadelphia 7 Sept 1883. Postal notes were the specialized money order successors to the United States Department of the Treasury's postage and fractional currency. They were created so Americans could safely and inexpensively (for a three cent fee) send sums of money under $5 to distant places. [1]
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1883 elections in the United States by state (24 C) 1883 in American sports by state (16 C) A. 1883 in Alabama (2 C, 1 P) 1883 in Arizona Territory (1 C, 2 P)
The first shooting medals were struck in honor of the Officers' Shoot held in Langenthal, Bern, in 1822. [5] [6] Shooting medals continued to be made in great numbers, minted in a variety of metals, including silver, bronze, gold and white metal.
The list of ship launches in 1883 includes a chronological list of some ships launched in 1883. Date Country Builder Location Ship Class / type Notes 8 January