The United State Mint unveiled designs for the 2021 Morgan and Peace centennial silver dollars. They also revealed where they will be made and how many mint and privy marks will be used.
Authorized under Public Law 116-286, the 1921 Silver Dollar Coin Anniversary Act, the U.S. Mint will strike the silver dollars in recognition of the 100th anniversary in 2021 of the production transition from Morgan dollars to Peace dollars.
Mint staff were able to develop the 2021 designs by scanning old assets, including Morgan and Peace dollars, hubs, plasters, and galvanos. The finest scanned components were digitally mapped and pieced together to create the design renditions.
Coin inscriptions will match the older, iconic dollars with an exception of the year of minting.
The Mint’s intent is to use the .999 fine silver planchets that they strike for commemorative dollars as those will produce coins to the same weight, thickness and diameter of the original dollars.
Production Facilities, Mint Marks and Privy Marks
U.S. Mint facilities in Philadelphia, Denver and San Francisco will manufacture the 2021 Morgan silver dollars. Those from Denver and San Francisco will carry respective ‘D’ and ‘S’ mint marks. Morgan dollars from Philadelphia will not have a mint mark, paying homage to the original issues.
In addition, the Philadelphia Mint will produce Morgan dollars with privy marks for the former New Orleans and Carson City Mints in honor of their Morgan silver dollar production.
2021 Peace dollars will only be minted in Philadelphia and they will not contain a mint mark.
Is there any info on the production of Proofs ?
Not yet
My money is on no proof since the S mint is uncirculated https://catalog.usmint.gov/morgan-2021-silver-dollar-with-s-mint-mark-21XF.html
Since no Peace dollar has the digit “0” on it, where did the one in 2021 come from?
The Mint’s experts should be able to identify the style used on the originals or at least find a very close approximation among the thousands (tens of?) of fonts available today. It shouldn’t be difficult for an artist to make the zero “look right” when matched with the other digits.
There is no Peace dollar with “O” privy mark. That’s only the Morgan dollar. The Morgan also has “CC” privy mark and will have S and D mint marks with no mint mark being from Philadelphia Mint. The Peace dollar will only be minted at Philadelphia Mint so won’t have any privy or mint mark.
Here’s the Morgan with the “O”: “The reverse also features an “O” privy mark, in recognition of the historic Mint facility located in New Orleans, LA, where some of the original Morgan Dollars were minted.”
https://catalog.usmint.gov/morgan-2021-silver-dollar-with-o-privy-mark-21XD.html
“The Mint’s intent is to use the .999 fine silver planchets that they strike for commemorative dollars” seems to be an error as .900 silver is used for commemorative dollars and was used for the original Morgan and Peace dollars.
The newer silver commemoratives (since 1999) have been .999 fine. In Tuesday’s CCAC meeting, Ron Harrigal, the U.S. Mint’s manager of design and engraving, discussed their intention to use the .999 fine planchet. He did note that it would have a “very slight reduction in volume” but that it would result in the same weight and overall specifications, including thickness and diameter, of the old silver dollars.
Mike, not to be a contrarian, but as far as I have been able to ascertain in my research online it was in 2019 and not in 1999 that the U.S. Mint made the switch from the previous standard of 90% silver/10% copper to the new one of .999 silver as the official silver purity content level for both its annual commemorative dollars and its silver proof half dollars, quarters and dimes.
You are correct! Thank you! My mind must have been filled with too many “9’s” at the time.
By my calculations, all other things being equal, with two coins of equal size, one in .999 silver, one .900 silver/.100 copper, the .999 silver one should weigh about 1.5 percent more. Possibly they will make these with a higher or thicker rim to make things come out even.
You’re very welcome, Mike. As a matter of fact, I did more than a little scouring of the web to be certain I wasn’t in error regarding this issue. After all, yours is always my first daily go-to coin site, so if I was going to make a point here I wanted to be confident it was valid.
Lol
No! Lol I truly thank you for your effort
How does a reduction in production equate to the same specifications denominated to the thousandth. Oh it doesnt. Thank you.
Mathematically I don’t see how you can have a reduction in volume (composite/coin) and maintain the same size and thickness of the original. Since the originals were 90% Silver/10% Copper and now that remaining 10% is Silver at a higher weight than Copper. You would have to cheat on the thickness somewhere as in subtracted from the flat background and therefore making the raised Liberty or Eagle enhanced as in high relief, all be it minimal. Regardless this endeavor will be welcomed world wide which brings us all to the question, what will be the mintage of each mint marked… Read more »
+1
is it worth to collect this set of coins , if Mint charge $499 per set ?
If it sells out is it worth saving?
put the privy mark where the mint mark should be
Seems that they will never be able to recreate the beauty of the original designs using modern methods.
Yes. They failed miserably looking at the mint images. They made a better product 100 years ago.
Any idea when I can get my hands on one?
Yesterday
Hope they will be more available to individual collectors than the 2021-W American Eagle Proofs…signed up for mint notification when available…got several mint emails over a few days saying they were now available and jumped on every one, but their website then kept saying “no longer available.” I did get one hit pre-selected for 8…but when I went to change it to just one, it wouldn’t take it (one was “unavailable” but I could have purchased 8…). Have heard many stories like this about many mint products/issues. Way to treat customers.
I was able to get two by enrolling before hand. I have a recurring appointment in my calendar to check the mint each week to see if they have new enrollments. Very easy when they do, very hard when they don’t.
I can hardly wait for these. Raw or certified!!
Maybe the mintage will be only 2,021 specimens.
The US Mint just updated their site with release dates and mintages for the Morgan and Peace Dollars. May 24th for the Morgans with CC and O privy marks. June 1st for the Morgans with D and S mint marks. June 7th for the Morgan with no mint mark (Philadelphia) and the Peace with no mint mark (Philadelphia). 175,000 is shown for each Morgan Dollar under product limit with household limit of 25. The Peace Dollar is shown as product limit of 200,000 with 25 household limit. There are no mintage limits listed for any of the coins. Only product… Read more »
$85 per coin.
Yeah and no enrollments. It’s going to be “interesting”. I might try to get four or five but it might not be possible even at “only” $85 each