1878 8-Tail Feather Morgan Silver Dollar Brilliant Uncirculated

Product Description

Struck only by the principal Philadelphia Mint (with no mintmark), this historic first Morgan dollar issue had an abbreviated mintage of just 750,000. The Mint Director stopped production after an ornithologist protested that eagles always have an odd number of feathers. So the eight tail feathers on George T. Morgan's original dies quickly became obsolete. Later Morgan dollars were struck with seven-tail feather eagles. Our Brilliant Uncirculated quality has nice luster and no wear.