If you are looking to buy silver from the United States Mint in 2021, you won’t want to miss out on the centennial release of the Morgan Dollar and Peace Dollar designs. The final year of issue for the Morgan was 1921, the same year the Peace Dollar made its debut. To celebrate this important centennial, the US Mint is issuing bullion coins with five Silver Morgan Dollar options and one Silver Peace Dollar option. Now, 2021 (P) O Privy Silver Morgan Dollars are available to you for purchase online at Silver.com.
Coin Highlights:
- Coins ship to you inside of US Mint presentation boxes with a Certificate of Authenticity included!
- Coins packaged inside capsules!
- 100th-anniversary issue of Silver Morgan Dollar designs!
- Total mintage limited to 175,000 coins only!
- Consists of .858 Troy ounces of .999 fine silver.
- Issued a face value of $1 (USD) by the United States.
- The obverse features Liberty.
- On the reverse is the heraldic eagle.
- Duplicates the original George T. Morgan designs.
- Struck by the Philadelphia Mint with the commemorative “O” mint marks of the New Orleans Mint.
In 1878, the United States Mint resumed silver dollar coining following the Fourth Coinage Act in 1873. The re-release of silver dollars resulted in a new design, one that was created by a new assistant engraver at the United States Mint, George T. Morgan. When production of the coins began in 1878, the existing Philadelphia, Carson City, and San Francisco Mints struck the coins. In 1879, when the New Orleans Mint resumed coining operations, it too began striking Silver Morgan Dollars.
The New Orleans Mint originally opened in 1838 and remained operational until 1861 and the outset of the US Civil War. It remained closed throughout the Civil War and the Reconstruction era. In 1879, it resumed operations and began striking Silver Morgan Dollars. The New Orleans Mint issued Morgans each year from 1879 to 1904, missing only the first year in 1878 and the final year in 1921.
The obverse side of 2021 (P) O Privy Silver Morgan Dollars comes with a left-profile portrait of Liberty. She is shown wearing a Phrygian cap on her head with most of her hair held up underneath the cap. Just a few strands of hair curl down her neck as the coronet and wreath crowns rest on her head.
On the reverse face of 2021 O Privy Silver Morgan Dollars is a 19th-century iteration of the heraldic eagle. This design was also created by Morgan and features a front-facing bald eagle using its talons to clutch the arrows of war and the olive branch of peace.
These 2021 (P) O Privy Silver Morgan Dollars are encapsulated and set within black US Mint presentation boxes. Each coin comes with a Certificate of Authenticity from the US Mint. Although struck by the Philadelphia Mint, these coins have commemorative “O” mint marks in honor of the New Orleans Mint.
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