1880-CC Silver Dollar 1880-CC Morgan S$1 NGC MS65 CAC. This Western branch mint, Gem 1880-CC Silver Dollar comes with a lovely rainbow crescent the left side of its obverse. The otherwise white coin has satiny surfaces that are original and clean for the grade with just a touch of toning at the dentils on both sides. The strike is typical for the date with strong details on the eagles feathers but slight softness on Libertys hair above the ear. The CAC sticker indicates that the coin is a premium quality piece and fully merits the grade assigned.

George T. Morgan designed the Morgan silver dollar, which was issued every year from 1878 to 1904 and then again in 1921. Hundreds of millions of Morgan silver dollars were saved in bags of 1,000 each in bank vaults because the federal government created artificial demand for them to satisfy the Western silver interests. Some were melted in the 1918, but large quantities remained in bank vaults and were later bought by investors and collectors. Because many millions of Morgan silver dollars exist today in the hands of the public, the Morgan silver dollar has become the most widely collected coin of its era.

In the late 1870s a group of silver mine owners convinced Senator William Allison (Republican from Iowa) and Representative Richard Bland (Democrat from Missouri) to support a proposal for a new silver dollar. After much negotiation and intense lobbying by the silver industry, Bland and Allison introduced a bill to resume silver coinage, which had been stopped earlier. Despite the veto of President Rutherford B. Hayes, the Bland-Allison Act became law in February, 1878. It required that the Treasury buy a minimum of two million dollars a month of domestic silver to be coined into dollars. It also gave the silver dollar legal tender status. These became the dollars designed by George T. Morgan.