1882-CC

The 1882-CC, at 1,133,000 pieces, opens the second tier of Carson City Morgan Dollars, sitting just above the sub-million Semi-Key threshold that defines the 1879-CC, 1880-CC, 1881-CC, and 1885-CC. The 1882-CC and the next two years (1883-CC and 1884-CC) saw Treasury direct slightly higher silver allocations to Carson City as the Mint's general role in supporting the Bland-Allison Act program continued. The 1882-CC carries the standard Reverse of 1879 hub configuration with no major sub-varieties anchoring the year's specialist collecting. The 1882 through 1884 CC stretch is the most-accessible mid-tier Carson City Morgan group for collectors building a complete CC mintmark set.

Strike quality on the 1882-CC is consistently sharp, with Liberty's hair detail and the eagle's central feathers coming up cleanly on most coins from early die states. The General Services Administration sales of 1972 through 1980 distributed a meaningful share of the 1882-CC mintage to collectors in tamper-evident plastic holders, with the 1882-CC one of the more readily available GSA dates because of the relatively higher original mintage. PCGS, the Professional Coin Grading Service, and NGC populations cluster at MS63, MS64, and MS65, with MS66 examples available and MS67 condition-scarce. The GSA distribution effectively defines the modern certified pool for the date and supplies most fresh-surface inventory.

The 1882-CC is a regular Carson City Morgan Dollar by mintage classification and one of the more accessible CC mintmark entries for collectors building a complete Carson City set. Pricing has held flat for two decades at modest premiums above the GSA-flooded common-date CC level, with the differential to the low-mintage Semi-Keys substantial. The 1882-CC pairs with the 1883-CC and 1884-CC as the matched 1-million-plus Carson City trio that anchors the entry-grade CC pickup for new Morgan Dollar collectors. For the Carson City production context and the GSA distribution history, see the Morgan Dollar series history.