The Mints Furnace Room 1919.

[jeff of pa]

Evening public ledger. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 28 Feb. 1919.





https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...lars&andtext=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1

 

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[A2coins]

Wow and we work so hard to hopefully find one or two lol

 

[ToddsPoint]

Congress passed several laws in the late 1800's REQUIRING the mint to make silver dollars, even though we were flooded with them. They stopped minting them in '04 and then the Pittman Act of 1918 made the mint melt a whole bunch of Morgans. There are still tons of mint condition Morgans out there, even after the melt. Gary

 

[cudamark]

Oh to be able to have gone through all those coins before the melt......such a shame.

 

[jeff of pa]

Oh to be able to have gone through all those coins before the melt......such a shame.

200,000,000 silver Dollars worth a minimum of $14.00 a piece

the mint could be wealthy if they had them yet.

the cc's alone would be a Fortune

 

[Dozer D]

Oh to be able to have gone through all those coins before the melt......such a shame.

And yet, the mint did not even record the dates that were being melted. I believe that when paper dollars are shredded up, the serial numbers are recorded first, I could be wrong.

 

[ToddsPoint]

After the big melt of 1919, out came the Federal Reserve in 1920. They needed silver to back their notes so after melting all the Morgans, the mint cranked up Morgan production again and minted 60 million silver Morgans in 1921. Gary

 

[unclemac]

silver dollars were never a popular circulating coin. Many of the worn silver coins were circulated in Latin America and made their way back in the late 1800's.