ASE's, The Dollar Of Our Lifetime

It's great that you love this series but you are comparing apples and oranges.

Peace and Morgan dollars were actual dollars. They circulated and were used in commerce. ASE's were never coin of the realm. They were conceived and minted as bullion and proof version as collectibles.

So, to say that the ASE is the "dollar of our era, is not correct and misleading.

The real dollar of our era will be, Ike's, Susan B Anthony's, Sacagawea's, and the newly famous Presidential dollar series.

But I would add this as to why I disagreee with the OP.

The % of ASE vs. Morgans/Peace that are used for currency/circulated vs the % which collectors hold onto in high grades is way off.

High grade Morgans/Peace dollars were only collected by a small % of people back in those does. Today just about all collectors know that ASE are to be held and collected not spent and circulated.

Back in the era of the Morgans/Peace dollars, silver coins were minted to be used as currency, today silver coins are minted to be collector's items.

This will always differentiate pre-21st century 90% US coins and any modern "fine silver" US coins minted.

Interesting topic.

I don't think muddler is meaning to take anything away from the classic Morgan dollar. But the American silver eagle is a very popular coin.

In the coin shops, I see more people dealing in ASE's then all the other dollars combined.

They are buying and selling them for silver investments. But also they are putting together Dansco albums, and putting together complete sets of proof boxed coins. There are many collectors with complete sets of slabbed ASE's. And they are also traded in rolls and monster boxes. This coin falls into every area of coin collecting.

As for modern circulating dollars. SBA's are a dead series.
Ike's, I really like them, but they are really not a hot item at the coin shops I go to. For the small gold dollars I think most collectors of them put them away just because they are in the mint sets they break open. I am sure there are some that are really into this group of dollars but is is a much smaller group.

American silver eagle has it's share of key coins.
The 1995 W is one that many collectors would like to have, but is at a price range most to not want to purchase it.
There is also the 20th and 25th anniversary reverse proof coins and the 2008 w/reverse of 2007 burnished coin.

Look at all the collectors that got mad when the mint did not put out the 2009 proof ASE.

Weather we like it or not, this dollar coin is very very popular. These dollars are not sitting in government storage, pretty much every ASE they make is sold, and is owned by collectors and investors.