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Hello, as many know the total mintage reported on this date is 330,000. I've read some articles where collecters think the number may be significantly off. Maybe by as much as 1 million coins. What do you think? Take Care Ben  |
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Bones, I would suggest that you be very careful with this years silver dollar. I don't know if it would amount to a million or not, but there have been many 1899 coins with their mint marks removed. Thought you would want to know.
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Originally posted by OldDan
Bones, I would suggest that you be very careful with this years silver dollar. I don't know if it would amount to a million or not, but there have been many 1899 coins with their mint marks removed. Thought you would want to know.
Hey OldDan, your all over the place.  Thanks for the heads-up. This is the only one I have so far. My little brother is susposed to send me another in trade, but I'll have to wait and see. Take Care Ben |
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It's pretty common for a coin with that low of a mintage, so it's raising doubts in a lot of people's minds. I say that there has to have been some sort of error, because 330,000 isn't really a lot, and yet there is no trouble tracking one down.
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Hey Bones, Well, I go by the RB-( Red Book)-They say 330,000 for the P, 12,290,000 for the O, & 2,562,000 for S. Everything else is conjecture, wishful thinking and just plain mis-informed. Also you must keep in mind that many many many of these coins were melted, (back when they collected silver morgans so they can make Peace dollars, and then again when silver rocketed to 50 buck an ounce) many others were destroyed or just plain worn out. Sooo, I would speculate there is no where 330,000 around today. BTW a MS63 of this variety is worth $2,100+ CiScO |
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The 1899 P is the best Morgan I have. I got it off ebay 6 months ago it is SEGS MS63. I agree with Cisco some were probably melted because of the spike in silver prices got up around $50. |
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While I think the mintage numbers may be off, I would suggest sending the coin into ANACS or one of the other top TPGs for authentication. That way, you know that it's real and not altered.
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Hello, I know that silver is relatively soft, but if a mint mark were removed,with modern technology, wouldn't that be fairly easy to detect? I've looked at copper pennies where mm were removed or date changed and even to my untrained eye, it was relatively easy to pick-up.
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Originally posted by BERRY4402
Hello, I know that silver is relatively soft, but if a mint mark were removed,with modern technology, wouldn't that be fairly easy to detect?
With some people who do it for a living, it is quite hard to tell, sometimes even with a loupe. |
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When you can make a thousand dollars for removing a mintmark, you'll do it pretty darn good after a while.
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Posted 07/29/2006 3:36 pm
