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1884-CC
| Weight | 26.73 g |
| Diameter | 38.1 mm |
| Mint | Carson City |
| Strike | Circulation strike |
| Mintage | 1,136,000 |
| Edge | Reeded |
| Alignment | ↑↓ Coin |
| Composition | 90% Silver, 10% Copper |
| Melt value | — |
| Designer | George T. Morgan |
| Collector's Key ID | CK-4675 |
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No additional varieties recorded for this strike.
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 1884-CC, at 1,136,000 pieces, sits in the middle tier of Carson City Morgan Dollar production alongside the matched 1882-CC and 1883-CC. The General Services Administration sales of 1972 through 1980 distributed a substantial share of the original Treasury vault stock for this date directly to collectors in tamper-evident plastic holders, with the 1884-CC one of the most-distributed GSA Carson City dates because of the relatively high original mintage and the corresponding Treasury hoard that remained untouched until the modern releases. The 1884-CC carries the standard Reverse of 1879 hub configuration with no documented sub-varieties anchoring the year's specialist collecting.
Strike quality on the 1884-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 GSA distribution flooded the modern collector market with high-grade examples, and PCGS, the Professional Coin Grading Service, and NGC populations cluster at MS63, MS64, and MS65 as a result. MS66 examples are readily available; MS67 is genuinely scarce but appears more often than for most other CC dates. The 1884-CC consistently appears at the entry-level Carson City pickup price point in Mint State because of the GSA effect rather than any difference in original mintage from the surrounding 1882-CC and 1883-CC issues.
The 1884-CC is classified as Semi-Key on the live page, though the GSA distribution effectively eliminates the survival pressure that would normally justify the Semi-Key tier; pricing tracks closer to a common-date CC than to the genuinely rare early-1880s 1879-CC, 1880-CC, and 1881-CC issues. The 1884-CC remains the standard collector recommendation for a first Carson City Morgan Dollar pickup at a modest price point. The 1884-CC pairs with the 1882-CC and 1883-CC as the matched 1-million-plus Carson City trio. For the Carson City production context and the GSA distribution history that defined modern CC mintmark pricing, 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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