In the last three years of the 1880s, Philadelphia churned out massive hordes of silver dollars — resulting in a combined mintage of 61.2 million Morgans — but with bountiful numbers already in circulation, much of the mother mint's 1887, 1888 and 1889 outputs were placed into storage vaults for safe keeping. As a whole, the denomination would suffer great losses in government melts during the war years. Under the 1918 Pittman Act alone, more than 270 million stored silver dollars were liquefied in Uncle Sam's melting pot — in one fell swoop nearly half of the entire Morgan series vanished forever. More than 130 years after the 1887, 1888 and 1889 Philadelphia issues were struck, experts estimate that only a combined 5% of their original outputs may survive in this lustrous Brilliant Uncirculated condition we're offering today.