1900-O Over CC Morgan Silver Dollar Very Fine to Extra Fine

Product Description

This double-mintmark scarcity is just one of a number of fascinating varieties in the Morgan series. We very rarely offer this variety as specimens are always tough to find, but we've searched far and wide to acquire a very small cache.

So how did a 1900 Morgan end up with traces of the famous CC mint-mark when the facility shuttered its doors seven years earlier? Although the Carson City branch mint remained closed, it was converted to an assay office in 1899 and all of its equipment, including its dies were sent to Philadelphia. In the spirit of waste not, want not, the CC dies were re-punched with New Orleans' O. However, some of the dies were only partially effaced, thus resulting in the turn of the century 1900-O over CC variety.

More than 120 years later, the ghostly marks of the Carson City Mint can still be found on a number of New Orleans Morgans, but a good magnifier is recommended! Our guaranteed Very Fine/ Extra Fine specimens show faint remnants of the CC mint-mark on one or both sides of the O.