Hard Work, Sacrifice Behind Morgan Silver Dollars
Editor’s Note: For nearly 60 years, the feature-rich pages of Coins magazine, Numismatic News’ venerable sister publication, have tracked the history, fun and the growth of this great hobby, while also attracting new collectors to pursue what was once deemed the “hobby of kings.” Dusting off these time-aged issues, from the early 1960s and beyond, each installment of “Past Times with Coins,” written by its former longtime editor, explores what nuggets of interest they contain.
“The bare mention of a mine of silver calls up in most minds visions of glittering wealth and a world of romantic situations and associations,” wrote Mark Twain’s friend, Dan De Quille (William Wright), in his classic, The Big Bonanza.
The same can be said of the U.S. silver dollar, many of these large cartwheels were the product of one
