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The United States trade dollar was a dollar coin minted by the United States Mint to compete with other large silver trade coins that were already popular in East Asia. The idea first came about in the 1860s, when the price of silver began to decline due to increased mining in the western United States .
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 production of large numbers of U.S. gold coins (The first $1 and $20 gold coins were minted in 1849) from the new California mines lowered the price of gold, thereby increasing the value of silver. By 1853, the value of a U.S. silver dollar contained in gold terms, $1.04 of silver, equal to $38.09 today.
The $1 silver certificate from the Hawaii overprint series. 1899 United States five-dollar Silver Certificate (Chief Note) depicting Running Antelope of the Húŋkpapȟa. Silver certificates are a type of representative money issued between 1878 and 1964 in the United States as part of its circulation of paper currency. [1]
Class III Silver Dollar United States Berg, Garrett Stack's Bowers: August 2014 $1,880,000 1879 Quintuple Stella J-1643 Pattern United States Carter, Trompeter Legend May 2016 $1,840,000 1873 No Arrows 10C United States Eliasberg Stack's Bowers: August 2012 $1,840,000 1804 Class I Silver Dollar United States Stack's Bowers: October 2000
The 1854-55 have just arrows. Coins minted on January 25 of 1861 would be the last silver coins minted by the US Government in New Orleans until 1879. Coins minted on the 26th were silver coins minted by the State of Louisiana. Thus, the Seated Liberty Half Dollar would be the last US silver coin minted here until 1879. Barber 1892–1909
The $10 million Flowing Hair Silver Dollar was due to go on sale again in 2020, but there are no reports that it has fetched more than $10 million. ... Ebay added $3B in market value in one day ...
The Seated Liberty design remained standard on all American coins ranging from half dimes to half dollars for decades, but by 1879 — the year after the Bland-Allison Act caused a drastic curtailment in the mintages of Seated Liberty half dollars, quarters, and even dimes until 1883, there was increased criticism and calls for its replacement ...