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Rick........
Famous dates and occasions of the Old West.......I would just say that "after" 1878" there were plenty too. Even Tom Horn was put on trial in 1901 I believe. And the last band of free Sioux surrendered in 1890 (Chief Bigfoots band) trying to get to Red Clouds agency known as the Wounded Knee Masaccre. Geronimo (I think)was still being chased around too......mining camp towns....(Tombstone good example) and countless other towns "blowing up" and dozens of other kinds of examples........I don't know.......yes there was a lot of Old West stuff before 1878......but still a lot after too ! You might say, with "more" newspapers opening up, and communications much faster, the railroads, and stagecoaches, that it was "memorialized" in "real time" really fast in those late 1800's...
In fact, "MY" favorite era is the early 1800's..... The Mountain Man Rendezvous days...."before" all of the popular Old West stuff really got going anyway !
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03/07/2008 5:12 pm
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I'll come at the question this way... If the Morgans were not silver, then none of the other denominations would have been silver, either... why use a non-precious dollar when two halves would be "real" money? That said, Morgans would be on "equal footing" with other non-precious coins and I think their relative popularity to other coins would probably be about the same. Now, if the reason the Morgans were not silver was because the US did in 1878 what it ended up doing in 1965, then we would just shift the "divide" we have between silver and clad collectors. I also feel that would make pre-1878 silver coins worth much more than today for two reasons. One, the people that refuse to collect clad coins will not have the quantities from 1878 to 1964 to satisfy them. Two, for us to have abandoned silver in 1878 would mean it was scarce (no Nevada silver ever existed) and the $20+ per ounce we have today might actually be closer to $200. This is, of course, my little fantasy. YMMV.  |
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Eaglefoot
of course there are dates beyond 1878 that conjure up images of the old west ,, ,, I work with some of Geronimo's people as well as Victorio's people (Both Great men by the way !),,and live in the heart of Billy the kid country .
So to me the old west is still not completely gone ,, and many days I feel like I'm living in the middle of it .
My only point was what actually circulated and was used was more than likely seated and Bust coinage more so than Morgans .
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My only point was what actually circulated and was used was more than likely seated and Bust coinage more so than Morgans .
Almost certainly true. Even though it looks like they minted more Morgans than all other coinage during those years combined, there are so many Mint State Morgans available that you have to figure they didn't really actually circulate much compared to the numbers minted. |
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Metalman: I'm it is fantastic that you live in an invironment where you can not only see images of the past, but be able to breath too. So many times in my past I sure would have liked to move to places like you discribe. The acquisition of some good coins still in circulation should be much better there than where I'm at. And the air must sure be better.
The only past around here of importance is looking for Al Capone's missing fortunes.
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Metalman......
You'd be impressed with my dad's collection of "old" Navajo jewelry and rugs I bet.....
He has some Indian "pawn jewerly" made out of silver coins.....the antique stuff ......nothing modern or new. A rug he has is from right around 1900 and he has the story of how it was aquired from a family of Navajo on horseback and some walking. An elderly close friend gave this to my dad before he died and my dad knew the story well on how this gentleman purchased the rug.
His "scorch blossoms" and "concho belts" are very old and amazing pieces of art too !
My dad tells me how to tell an "authentic" rug from a fake one and such things....
The plains Indians and the northwest tribes have always been my facination and interests, but my dad has always been a fan of the Navajo, Zuni, etc. (Southwest tribes).....but I guess he's more interested in their "art" and crafts and I'm more interested in their "history" past and present....I go to the Sioux (Lakota) reservations every year or so......and oh.....does my imagination wonder !....The Black Hills, The Badlands.......so cool !
Nez Perce, Lakota (all 5 tribes), Cheyenne, Blackfeet, Pawnee,.... a little Commanche, Osage, some Apache hisotory too of course (Cochise by the way is another GREAT Apache leader....the Trail of Tears tribes to Oklahoma.......There is where "most" of my interests lie, but I like it all I guess......
So, I'm impressed that you get "every day life" with Native Americans......we have 3 reservations just North of me.....but they're really small and other than the occasional pow wow....they don't do much "culturally speaking" for education purposes for themselves or the general public like the larger tribes do out West...
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03/08/2008 1:17 pm
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Eaglefoot
I would love to see the things your Father has collected ,, if you would like we could continue this in the General Discussion forum ,,and I will share a few pics as well of some of the things I have .
and a little more on the culture here as well if your interested .
Metalman
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Yep ! Absolutely.....I haven't gone to many of the "other" areas on the "Coin Community Forum".....but I'll see if I can get there !
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Rick........
Kk... I found the "area" and sent off the "form request" and am awaiting the acceptance there.......
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Eaglefoot you have mail ,,
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What if? Hmm I'm thinking they wouldnt be as popular to collect if they were not silver. Regardless if they are silver or not, I plan on starting a collection as soon as I can. Thing about this is..the market! Do I wait until prices fall or buy now before they go up and never fall again? Now who around here has that crystal ball?  |
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Hi lucky
Morgans can still be had for just over or at melt ,, its interesting watching the Market on these coins ,, some carry a very good premium ,,but for the most part they are so plentiful that the only fluctuation comes from the silver value .
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