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Collecting Morgan Dollars on a Budget

Morgan dollars have without a doubt enjoyed widespread popularity among collectors for as long as anyone can remember, for a variety of reasons. They are big, silver coins. Many of them exist in high, Mint State grades. They span four decades and two centuries. They invoke some of the grandeur of the bygone days of the Wild West. Yet too often, many of us think that because the series is large and detailed, that it cannot be fully collected. Let’s look at these popular dollars from a somewhat different angle then, and see what an

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