Original Morgan Dollar Carson City bags from GSA release, how frickin cool
Skrill90
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It is astounding to see they're still out there. its a cool piece of history too.
Did any of you see these bags when they got released back in the GSA times or even during the late 60's when the silver dollars were hitting markets?
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That is pretty cool!
Collector, occasional seller
If they could only talk.
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I suspect they wouldn't have much to say....mostly sat around for a century staring at another bag's butt.
time is in the bag..
Speaking of butts, one numismatic legend is that Fed employees used to burn a hole in a dollar bag with a cigarette to see what was inside. Would have been pointless with this one.
$393.00 and 8 bids. I'd rather have a CC coin.
I can't pull up the link, but would probably want the coin as well.
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Think of it as an "album" to....FILL !!!
Millions of Morgan dollars were boxed and rebagged due to rotting canvas in damp vaults. The new bags did not necessarily correspond to the old ones.
PS: This is one reason the claim of finding Unc Morgans from different years in the same bag is faulty evidence of coins being carried forward or old dies being used in the following year.
I already have an old bag.
Tread lightly my friend.
Sorry.
I agree.
Here are the pictures from the link:
The seller has several other bags as well, including this one- I like the 'new design' designation:
Old and new design silver dollars were separated in the vaults. Here's a summary for Vault A at Philadelphia:
So Roger, do you think the bag in the said auction is a modern 're-bag'? I ask because it does not look like original CC or S mint bags that I've seen in the past which IIRC had a different and larger font, the $1000.00 face value, the mint or mintmark, etc.
Your hobby is supposed to be your therapy, not the reason you need it.
If it came from the GSA, it's probably original. Most Carson bags were made in Philadelphia, and printed in Carson. Local variation is to be expected.
Re-bagged coins wold have been put into plain bags with denomination and value, and possibly a Treasury logo or title. Most of the largest group of re-bagged coins were put into wooden boxes. After 1913, FRB or Treasury Department bags were used.
Good to see RogerB Posting. Always learn something from his posts....and books.
For a price of over $400 currently for the bag,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
I'll take a real GSA CC coin,,,,,,,,,
Look at the dollar imprints on that bag !
It's no wonder the GSA's look as baggy as they do, as a rule......Boy, those bags got tossed around.
Man those bags are banged up but so freaking cool.
It is interesting, but I would (and do) prefer the coins. And now it is up over $400, it will go higher. Cheers, RickO
I framed a couple of these with bag, coin, box, card and an original card. They are very cool and the coin matches the bag year.
Will the CC bag break$1000?
Probably - I've seen transactions go over $1000.
I remember asking someone at a GSA booth at either an ANA or FUN show in the 1970's what they were going to do with the bags. They did not know.
Harry Forman told me in person that he did this.
Quite likely. He was a chain smoker anyway. (Not sure what brand of chain he smoked.)
Yupp heard this too, at the time there was so many common dates and $1000 was a lot of money so if you could swoop a bag o rare dates it would be more worth your while.
The run on silver dollars was as close to a giveaway as Treasury will ever get, (See my book on Inco and Gould private patterns for details on the event.)
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Watch the buyer complain "I thought that all 1,000 coins came with it!!!!!!!!"
Some correspondence regarding the disposition of the bags between a collector and the GSA in 1977.
I like the correspondence.
I bought 12 of these GSA CC $s in 1979. Eight were the ugliest unc. Morgans I have ever seen. Three were nice, and one was beautiful. I still have the latter.
"Seu cabra da peste,
"Sou Mangueira......."
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Congrats to the winner