Morgan
Dollar (1878-1893) Mint CC
When you collect
Carson City Silver
Dollars, you are truly collecting a part of the Old
West.
The Carson City,
Nevada Mint was
established in 1870 as a repository for both the gold & silver
mining industries that had flourished
since the discovery of gold and
silver in California and Nevada.
It was a long
haul by stage coach from the
Nevada Silver & Gold Mines to the Mint Repository in San Francisco.
Gangs of thieves, like Black Bart, found the stage coaches easy
pickings.
Many new silver
mines were discovered in
Nevada and it was simply too expensive to haul silver to San Francisco,
so Congress was petitioned to put a mint in Nevada and Carson City was
selected.
The Carson City
Mint was operated from 1870
to 1893. Of all the mints, Carson City turned out the least amount of
coins and the high appreciation of CC's over the years have
made them
the favorite of collectors and investors alike. The CC Mint Mark is on
the back of the dollar at the bottom.
In 1971
President Richard Nixon had the
General Services Administration (GSA) sell the last of the Carson City
minted silver dollars to the general public. They came in a Plastic
case
3 3/8 inches wide and 5 3/8 inches high that says in silver letters on
the front of the case, Carson City
Uncirculated Silver Dollars. These
CC
Coins are now known as GSA dollars.
Most of the
cases are
airtight so
the
coins are still white as minted.
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