What Silver Dollars do you collect?

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Inspired70
Inspired70 Posts: 710 ✭✭✭✭✭
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For me, its Liberty Seated Dollars.

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  • lermish
    lermish Posts: 5,003 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    See my signature below

    chopmarkedtradedollars.com

  • TurtleCat
    TurtleCat Posts: 4,692 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Right now only types. I have one seated lib with motto, one 19th and one 20th century Morgan, one piece, a few Ikes, one SBA and one Sacajawea.

    I used to have more but I sold most everything and focused on gold dollars.

  • Crusty
    Crusty Posts: 1,143 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Liberty Seated Dollars here!

  • Bob13
    Bob13 Posts: 1,675 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Old ones...


    My current "Box of 20"

  • No Headlights
    No Headlights Posts: 2,176 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Seated Liberty including one Gobrecht. Also, a year set of Bust Dollars.

  • HoledandCreative
    HoledandCreative Posts: 2,890 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    All U.S. dates and mints.

  • SurfinxHI
    SurfinxHI Posts: 2,705 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Round ones.

    Dead people tell interesting tales.
  • ricko
    ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Morgans, Peace, ASE's, Trade dollars.... Only CC Morgans as a series. Did a set of ASE's until they skipped one... Cheers, RickO

  • johnny9434
    johnny9434 Posts: 34,068 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Morgans

  • Catbert
    Catbert Posts: 8,258 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Inspired70 - Do you have a registry set? I'd love to see your collection.

    I'm mainly a type collector so not a dollar collector.

    Seated Half Society member #38

    "She comes out of the sun in a silk dress,
    running like a water color in the rain...."
  • Paradisefound
    Paradisefound Posts: 8,623 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Believe it or not …. This is my favorite one; just because I can play with it at my discretion and not worry about leaving my finger prints ☺️

  • Paradisefound
    Paradisefound Posts: 8,623 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    and a lot of Dan’s 🥰

  • golden
    golden Posts: 10,536 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Only one of each type.

  • Barndog
    Barndog Posts: 20,530 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    the ones minted during the same years that capped bust half dimes were minted.

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  • BustDMs
    BustDMs Posts: 1,706 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Barndog said:
    the ones minted during the same years that capped bust half dimes were minted.

    So let’s see those Gobrechts.

    I like these.


    Q: When does a collector become a numismatist?



    A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.



    A numismatist is judged more on the content of their library than the content of their cabinet.
  • lkenefic
    lkenefic Posts: 9,518 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Type mainly... I started a Morgan Dollar date set and still have most of those coins, but I'm taking a different direction now...

    Collecting: Dansco 7070; Middle Date Large Cents (VF-AU); Box of 20;

    Successful BST transactions with: SilverEagles92; Ahrensdad; Smitty; GregHansen; Lablade; Mercury10c; copperflopper; whatsup; KISHU1; scrapman1077, crispy, canadanz, smallchange, robkool, Mission16, ranshdow, ibzman350, Fallguy, Collectorcoins, SurfinxHI, jwitten, Walkerguy21D, dsessom.
  • amwldcoin
    amwldcoin Posts: 11,269 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Seated Dollars are my new venture. Morgans and Peace just bore me....though I do like nice Morgan Dollar!
    https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1073667/21-down-and-23-to-go-finally-decided-my-next-set-venture-and-its-not-a-barber/p1

  • numbersman
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    I've had many but this one is the one I can't let go of (mainly because no one will pay my price for it-lol).

    Collector of numeral seals.That's the 1928 and 1928A series of FRNs with a number rather than a letter in the district seal. Owner/operator of Bottom Line Currency
  • Walkerfan
    Walkerfan Posts: 10,392 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Morgans and Seated Dollars.

    I feel that Morgans are overpriced and Seated Dollars are undervalued. JMHO.

    Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍

    My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):

    https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/

  • TennesseeDave
    TennesseeDave Posts: 4,916 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I love all types of silver $'s, but my main focus is Trade $'s.

    Trade $'s
  • Crusty
    Crusty Posts: 1,143 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    So far the Seated Dollars guys are kicking the Morgan’s guys ass!

  • Smudge
    Smudge Posts: 10,001 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    I don’t collect silver dollars. I have a few, but don’t actively collect them.

  • Elcontador
    Elcontador Posts: 7,743 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Just 19th century type, the nicest I can afford. A Heraldic Eagle, Seated with & without motto and a Morgan. Am trying to get my first 18th century coin, a Flowing Hair dollar. Have been looking for quite awhile.

    "Vou invadir o Nordeste,
    "Seu cabra da peste,
    "Sou Mangueira......."
  • bearcave
    bearcave Posts: 3,996 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Crusty said:
    So far the Seated Dollars guys are kicking the Morgan’s guys ass!

    Some years ago I collected Trade Dollars but got took on several cleaned ones then went to Morgans.

    Ken
  • alefzero
    alefzero Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Flowing Hair and Bust (aka Early) US silver dollars. Added for fun the sovereign nations Shawnee and Poarch Creek silver dollars - a nice couple PCGS boxes for complete sets. Still have a lot of Trade dollars and seem to pick a few up here and there. Checked out of VAMs after decades. Oh, got a complete Ike set and just have a handful of 69s to upgrade to 70s.

  • JBN
    JBN Posts: 2,007 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    All of my certified silver dollars are Liberty seated, save for one toned Morgan.
    I have about half of the Morgans in Whitman & Capital Holders. Several of the Peace series in a lucite holder. A nice Ike set that I bought whole in a Whitman Deluxe in 1983 - these toned some and have been in a Capital Holder for about a decade now.

  • vplite99
    vplite99 Posts: 1,434 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Intriguing question.

    Morgans, the most popular collector dollars, was not a popular choice in this very unscientific poll.

    Yet I believe on this forum Morgans are among the most discussed coins.

    Have many of us moved past collecting Morgans; remnants of our lost youth? Or is having at least one or a few special examples, not a collection per se, the path for many?

    Vplite99
  • 1northcoin
    1northcoin Posts: 5,544 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 26, 2022 10:31PM
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    When I see the term "Silver Dollar" it conjures up images of Morgans and Peace Silver Dollars. Other coins made of silver whether of dollar value or not just aren't "Silver Dollars" to me.

    As to collecting, for awhile I focused on semi-proofs which added a degree of fun and challenge to the chase. The other area of focus was collecting Carson City minted Silver Dollars.

  • IKU
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    Problem with "newer" morgans is that most years+mint marks are too easy to get. Every one got them.
    High survivability = low effort to buy+low values.

    Trade dollars and earlier dollars give more challenge.

  • lkenefic
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    @amwldcoin said:
    Seated Dollars are my new venture. Morgans and Peace just bore me....though I do like nice Morgan Dollar

    I've started, and stopped, a Morgan Dollar date set more times than I'd care to recall. It's the first big silver coin I had as a kid... still have a couple that my grandfather gave me... but every time I get close to completing the set, I just get bored with it. That said, I still love the design and the history. I think I'll likely sell off most of the "accumulation" of Morgan Dollars I have, keep the ones with pleasant toning and sentimental value, and just have the one in my 7070 and a DMPL for the Box of 20...

    Collecting: Dansco 7070; Middle Date Large Cents (VF-AU); Box of 20;

    Successful BST transactions with: SilverEagles92; Ahrensdad; Smitty; GregHansen; Lablade; Mercury10c; copperflopper; whatsup; KISHU1; scrapman1077, crispy, canadanz, smallchange, robkool, Mission16, ranshdow, ibzman350, Fallguy, Collectorcoins, SurfinxHI, jwitten, Walkerguy21D, dsessom.
  • 1northcoin
    1northcoin Posts: 5,544 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @Zoins said:

    @1northcoin said:
    When I see the term "Silver Dollar" it conjures up images of Morgans and Peace Silver Dollars. Other coins made of silver whether of dollar value or not just aren't "Silver Dollars" to me.

    I'm not even sure how to respond to that!

    Oh wait, here's a response!

    One of my favorite "Silver Dollars" ;)

    Very nice. Yes I have some of those too (though not that stunning) but I would not be surprised to learn that in their day they were not typically referred to as "Silver Dollars" which likely became synonymous with the Morgans and Peace Dollars of a later era.

    It would be fun to be proven either right or wrong on this point but that may be quite a challenge since finding printed references to them as "Silver Dollars" would not establish what they were most commonly called at the time.

    Now in Nevada, where I spent my earliest years, the term "Silver Dollars" meant only one thing - those silver discs that numismatists would have referred to as Morgans or Peace Dollars. :)

  • amwldcoin
    amwldcoin Posts: 11,269 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    @1northcoin said:

    @Zoins said:

    @1northcoin said:
    When I see the term "Silver Dollar" it conjures up images of Morgans and Peace Silver Dollars. Other coins made of silver whether of dollar value or not just aren't "Silver Dollars" to me.

    I'm not even sure how to respond to that!

    Oh wait, here's a response!

    One of my favorite "Silver Dollars" ;)

    Very nice. Yes I have some of those too (though not that stunning) but I would not be surprised to learn that in their day they were not typically referred to as "Silver Dollars" which likely became synonymous with the Morgans and Peace Dollars of a later era.

    It would be fun to be proven either right or wrong on this point but that may be quite a challenge since finding printed references to them as "Silver Dollars" would not establish what they were most commonly called at the time.

    Now in Nevada, where I spent my earliest years, the term "Silver Dollars" meant only one thing - those silver discs that numismatists would have referred to as Morgans or Peace Dollars. :)

    If it ain't a silver dollar what is it??? :o

  • P0CKETCHANGE
    P0CKETCHANGE Posts: 3,728 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Peace Dollars! I was never really into them until I bought this ‘23 luster bomb of a coin for my type set example. I picked up the ‘25 shortly thereafter, and now I’m two coins away from completing my date set.



  • 1630Boston
    1630Boston Posts: 14,157 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Very nice pieces above :)
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    I only have one of each
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    Bad transactions with : nobody to date

  • clarke442
    clarke442 Posts: 627 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Occasionally . . . Foreign ones

  • rmpsrpms
    rmpsrpms Posts: 1,976 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    USPI

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