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CoinWeek IQ discusses the history and market for the 1904-O silver dollar, the last Morgan dollar struck at the New Orleans Mint.

The New Orleans Mint’s last Morgan dollars were struck in 1904 as the United States Mint prepared to shutter the facility.

CoinWeek IQ discusses the history and market for the 1904-O silver dollar, the last Morgan dollar struck at the New Orleans Mint.

CoinWeek IQ discusses the history and market for the 1904-O silver dollar, the last Morgan dollar struck at the New Orleans Mint.

United States 1904-O Morgan Silver Dollar Description In mid-to-late 1904, an article appeared in newspapers across the country with the blaring headline: “Passing of the Good Old American Silver Dollar.” Under the subtitle “It Is Probable That No More of Them Will Ever be Coined by the Government,” the author, Katherine Pope, reported “that ponderous and more or less troubling coin, the silver dollar, has had its day… the supply of silver bullion purchased under the Sherman act [s...