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1880-CC
| Weight | 26.73 g |
| Diameter | 38.1 mm |
| Mint | Carson City |
| Strike | Circulation strike |
| Mintage | 591,000 Combined mintage for all 1880-CC varieties |
| Edge | Reeded |
| Alignment | ↑↓ Coin |
| Composition | 90% Silver, 10% Copper |
| Melt value | — |
| Designer | George T. Morgan |
| Collector's Key ID | CK-4644 |
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Other recorded varieties for 1880-CC:
- 1880-CC 8/7 Reverse of 78 · 8/7 Reverse of 78
- 1880-CC 8/High 7 · 8/High 7
- 1880-CC 8/Low 7 · 8/Low 7
- 1880-CC Reverse of 1878 · Reverse of 1878
External references
- A Guide Book of United States Coins (The Red Book) · Silver Dollars · Morgan, 1878-1921
- PCGS CoinFacts: Morgan Dollars
- NGC Coin Explorer: Morgan Dollars
- Heritage Auctions Archives
- Stack's Bowers Archives
The 1880-CC, at 591,000 pieces, is the third Carson City Morgan Dollar and a Semi-Key issue with multiple documented reverse and date varieties that anchor the year's specialist collecting profile. Carson City's 1880 output dropped from the 1879-CC 756,000 figure and remained well below the inaugural-year 2.2-million 1878-CC. The Mint Director's office cut Carson City's silver allocation as the Bland-Allison Act's initial production surge wound down, and the 1880-CC therefore became one of the four sub-million-mintage CC dates that anchor the Carson City collecting set. Multiple overdate and reverse-hub varieties exist for the year (8/7 Reverse of 1878, 8/High 7, 8/Low 7, Reverse of 1878 standalone) and are catalogued separately on this site under specific VAM listings.
Strike quality on the 1880-CC follows the standard Carson City pattern with full Liberty hair detail and sharp eagle feathers on early-die-state examples. The varieties for the year split between Reverse of 1878 (the older parallel-breast hub still in use at Carson City after retirement elsewhere) and Reverse of 1879 (the standard concave-breast hub), with overdate combinations 8/7 High and 8/7 Low further dividing the year's dies into multiple VAM-attributed marriages. The General Services Administration sales of 1972 through 1980 put thousands of Mint State 1880-CC examples into collector hands in tamper-evident plastic holders. PCGS, the Professional Coin Grading Service, and NGC populations cluster at MS63 and MS64, with MS65 condition-scarce because the GSA distribution skewed toward MS63-MS64 grades.
The 1880-CC is a Semi-Key issue and one of the four sub-million-mintage Carson City dates. Pricing has held strong for two decades, with GSA-pedigreed examples commanding small premiums for the original packaging. The 1880-CC pairs with the 1879-CC, 1881-CC, and 1885-CC as the matched low-mintage Carson City quartet, while the various 1880-CC variety subtypes layer significant VAM specialist demand on top of the base date pricing. For the Carson City production context and the GSA distribution history, see the Morgan Dollar series history.
Reference data only — not an appraisal.
| Grade | Description | Low | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| G-4 | Good (G) | — | — |
| VG-8 | Very Good (VG) | — | — |
| F-12 | Fine (F) | — | — |
| VF-20 | Very Fine (VF) | — | — |
| EF-40 | Extremely Fine (EF) | — | — |
| AU-50 | About Uncirculated (AU) | — | — |
| MS-60 | Uncirculated (MS) | — | — |
| MS-63 | Choice Uncirculated (MS) | — | — |
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