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1879 halves
ramhorne
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1879 50c mintage=4,800 survivors=3,000 (62.5%) ms=550 (11.5%) gem=125 (2.6%)
let's randomly pick on 1878 for comparison.
1878 50c mintage=1,377,600 survivors=900 (.065%) ms=120 (.0087%) gem=16 (.0012%)
post an 1879 half or the closest dated half you have.
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1879 was the first of the low mintage/high collected Philadelphia run that went through 1891. Low mintage caused many to hoard and so the survival rate in uncirculated is very high. There may be more gem++ (67 or so) 1879s than any other date. JBN's above is a nice one.
"Look up, old boy, and see what you get." -William Bonney.
where's the s on the 78?
The mints had to burn through all of that silver from out west. Bland Allison. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bland%E2%80%93Allison_Act].
Output of Morgan dollars was in the tens of millions for these years.
A friend of mine bought a half dollar love token dated 1879. Luckily they planed off the reverse so you could see that they used a rare coin. The person that sold it to him didn't notice the date, or didn't realize how low the mintage was.