1885-P Morgan Silver Dollar Very Fine

Product Description

Minted over 130 years ago, this big silver dollar circulated when Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was first published. At the time, just one Morgan could pay for a boat trip from New York to Boston. Struck by the principal mint in the first full decade of the Morgan series, less than 10% of this issue's mintage is estimated to survive today in our nicely detailed Very Fine quality or better. That year more Morgan dollars were produced than any other coin denomination, but many were held in reserve and later lost in melts. Philadelphia Morgan mintages rose considerably in succeeding issues of the 1880s.