American Silver Dollars • American Photographer Mark Fisher • An American History Issue

American Silver Dollars 

Morgan Design 1878 - 1904

Redesign 1921

• American Photographer Mark Fisher •

 An American History Issue

The Morgan dollar was a United States dollar coin 

minted from 1878 to 1904, and then again in 1921.

 It was the first standard silver dollar minted 

since production of the previous design, 

the Seated Liberty dollar, 

ceased due to the passage of the Coinage Act of 1873, 

which also ended the free coining of silver.

 The coin is named for its designer, United States Mint

 Assistant Engraver George T. Morgan. 

The obverse (the front Side)

depicts a profile portrait representing Liberty,

 while the reverse (back side) depicts 

an eagle with wings outstretched.

The dollar was authorized by the Bland–Allison Act.

 Following the passage of the 1873 act,

 mining interests lobbied to restore free silver,

 which would require the Mint to accept 

all silver presented to it and return it, 

struck into coin. Instead, 

the Bland–Allison Act was passed, 

which required the Treasury

 to purchase between two and four million dollars' 

worth of silver at market value

 to be coined into dollars each month.

 In 1890, the Bland–Allison Act

 was repealed by the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, 

which required the Treasury to purchase 

4,500,000 troy ounces (140,000 kg)

 of silver each month, 

but only required further silver dollar production for one year.

 This act, in turn, was repealed in 1893.

In 1898, Congress approved a bill that 

required all remaining bullion

 purchased under the Sherman Silver Purchase

 Act to be coined into silver dollars. 

When those silver reserves were depleted in 1904, 

the Mint ceased to strike the Morgan dollar. 

The Pittman Act, passed in 1918,

 authorized the melting and recoining of millions of silver dollars.

 Pursuant to the act, Morgan dollars 

resumed mintage for one year in 1921. 

The design was replaced by the Peace dollar

 later the same year.

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