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Description
The 1896-S is another of the Morgan dollar issues of which worn specimens are very common, but Mint State coins are rare. Bags of 1896-S Uncirculated dollars were paid out from the San Francisco Mint during the very early 1950s, when scant attention was paid to them as they had little value at the time. A few years later, John Skubis and Arnold Rosing jointly bought a bag which turned up at a bank in Oakland, California. Perhaps another bag or two came out as well during that era. The issue seems to have been plentiful enough as singles in the 1950s and 1960s, but rare in quantity.
- Category: Morgan Dollars (1878-1921)
- Mint: San Francisco
- Obverse Designer: George T. Morgan
- Reverse Designer: George T. Morgan
- Weight: 26.73g
- ASW: 0.7734oz
- Diameter: 38.1mm
- Edge: Reeded
