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Valued Member
 United States
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I grew up in Las Vegas.I remember in the early 1970's you could hit the equivalent to. $5 jackpot at the grocery store and receive a Morgan silver dollar.You could exchange the silver dollar for cash with the change girl.The front of the machine was a large plastic bubble in front of the machine showing the Morgan's.Crazy Huhhh!!! |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1316 Posts |
I'm just doing a date set of circulated pcs slowly with my daughter. Maybe we'll get there in 20 years, and I'll be a happy camper for the shared experience with her. We are building off the few coins my grandfather left me.
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Valued Member
United States
465 Posts |
Morgan's are my favorite and I am within 8 coins of being complete (9 if you Include the 95, 13 if you include the 2021's&  ).. I started buying all MS dollars. Finding a few dealers that allow me to put dollars on layaway has helped me buy more MS Morgan's than I could have otherwise. I have found that I really like the circulated Morgan's too. The way they look and who/when they were handled is intriguing to me. While MS Morgan's are absolutely beautiful the circulated dollars scream history to me. A VG Morgan is an attractive coin. That said I kind of like the variety in the set I'm completing. I will never be finished with Morgan's. I will collect them the rest of my life and In fact I am working on 2 more circulated only sets as I try to complete my original one. BTW I began with a year set and once complete got the bug to complete Morgan's about 7 years ago. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1590 Posts |
Flying Tiger, I can remember in the early 70s in Fallon. My grandmother and I were at the local Safeway. My Grandmother was a bit short at the register. Knowing my Grandmother the clerk was willing to just let her make it up on the next trip, but Grandmother never dealt with credit. She took a quarter back, walked up to the quarter slot machine in the lobby; deposited the quarter; and put her hand under the spout where the money came out. I swear she would have had a heart attack if she had not won! She took the money that she needed for the register and put the rest in the dollar slot and told me that whatever came out was my allowence that week! It was 20 morgan and Peace dollars! I can't even imagine seeing real silver dollars coming out of the slot machines anymore! |
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Valued Member
United States
465 Posts |
JMkendall:
I would love to have heard what the casinos must have sounded like with thousands of silver dollars hitting the metal trays of the one armed bandits.
I don't like casinos now because I miss the sound of money.. when I started going to casinos in the 80's dollars were gone but at least they were still using change in the slot machines.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
999 Posts |
I love Morgan dollars! I really just started a couple years ago. I find it fascinating seeing the very wide range of toning that they have. The average list price on Numismedia of the nine I have is up 25% from two years ago! It's unfortunate because there's still a lot I want to get. I really just focus on Philly and New Orleans mints. Including everything feels overwhelming and is not in the budget. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The key factor is the money. If you have the money the set is not difficult. No millionaire, myself, I can't argue this point! I see it differently though, with THE, truly KEY factor being just how one defines his/her set. For many, a "complete" set does NOT include the 1895. It also lacks the VAM varieties. Many Lincoln Cent and Buffalo nickel collectors demand the error or variety coins in their "complete" sets. I, for one, might argue that no set, Morgans or otherwise, is complete without at least one counterstamped coin in it! I once assembled a complete "year set" in a Dansco album. For most Morgan collectors, that's a doable goal. I enjoyed showing it to other collectors while discussing just what constitutes a set. Actually, a Morgan collector can assemble a number of sets, within the series at large, mini-sets, if you will. To me, this thread begs the real question of just what constitutes a "set" for each collector? |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
8516 Posts |
There used to be a guy here that had like 4 or 5 complete sets. The Carl of Morgan's.
Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Bedrock of the Community
Australia
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Even a representative collection of a dozen or more Morgans in high MS grades with lots of luster is a considerable achievement for some of us !  |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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There used to be a guy here that had like 4 or 5 complete sets. The Carl of Morgan's. Yep, He always had plenty to show in the post your Morgans threads. |
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 United States
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The Carl of Morgan's. That seems like an appropriate way to reference someone with multiple sets of one series. "Carl" could be a scale...  You are a "Full Carl" with at least ten sets, a "Half Carl" at five. I guess I am "One Fifth Carl" with my two Ike sets.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
8516 Posts |
Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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Pillar of the Community
United States
635 Posts |
I am half way to a set of Morgans, mostly low MS. I buy 3 to 4 per year. Set should be complete when I am 90.
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Rest in Peace
United States
10625 Posts |
I'm closing in on full Carl with my Dansco 7106 albums. 9 albums with all MS red Lincoln Wheats. I will admit that these are much easier to complete than the Mercury dime albums. The hardest part is finding the albums... Two of the albums have already been handed off to my oldest grand kids. Hopefully I'll have sparked a YN or two... |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
8516 Posts |
That's pretty impressive Dave !
Oregon coin geek.....*** GO BEAVS ! ! ! ***
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