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1896-S Morgan Silver Dollar, For the date, this 1896 San Francisco Morgan is far and away the toughest to find. A respectable five million business strikes were output by the famed San Fran facility, but like many other issues of the series few survive. In mint-state quality, the 1896-S is genuinely rare — the finest known specimen graded MS-69 sold at auction for a whopping $720,000!
1899-S Morgan Silver Dollar, About 1% of the 2.5 million Morgan silver dollars output by the San Francisco Mint in 1899 is estimated to exist in Uncirculated grades today. That low survival rate means that when even average mint-state specimens are found, they sell for over $900. As not all collectors can or want to spend that kind of cash on one coin, it puts additional pressure on the already limited number of circulated specimens available in the marketplace.