1879-CC Morgan Dollar
Semi-keyA low-mintage Carson City issue. Many surviving examples show weak or heavily clashed dies, and the year includes a distinct mintmark punch variety.
Mintage
- Business strikes
- 756,000
- Mint
- Carson City (CC)
- Mintage rank
- 17 of 96
Rank 1 is the lowest business-strike mintage in the series. Mintage is what the Mint produced, not what survives: some 270 million silver dollars were melted under the Pittman Act of 1918 without the dates being recorded, and several issues sat in Treasury vaults for decades before release.
Reading the figure
Among the 13 Carson City issues in the series it is the 6th smallest. Of the 27,559,000 struck across all mints in 1879, this issue accounts for 3%. Philadelphia struck 20 times as many that year. The 1879 split ran Philadelphia 14,806,000, San Francisco 9,110,000, New Orleans 2,887,000 and Carson City 756,000. The series median is 5,000,000, so fewer than half as many of these were struck as a typical date.
Every sentence above is computed from the mintage table on this page, not asserted separately.
Scarcity tier
Semi-key
Assigned from reported mintage alone: under 750,000 is a key date, under 2,500,000 is a semi-key.
This is a reproducible label derived from the mintage column, not a market valuation and not a Coin Curator price opinion. The same thresholds apply to every series on this site. Several dates are far harder or far easier to obtain than their mintage implies; where that is true, it is stated above.
Recent sold prices
Last checked Sep 16, 2026 · most recent sale Sep 14, 2026What certified 1879-CC Morgan dollars actually sold for on eBay in the last 90 days, grouped by grade band. Every figure below is a completed sale of a PCGS, NGC or ANACS coin in a straight grade. This is a record of what changed hands, not a price guide, an appraisal, or a prediction of what yours is worth.
Good to Fine
PO1 to F15$378
Median of 19 sales
- Lowest
- $229
- Highest
- $695
The 4 most recent sales
- $375NGC G6 · Sep 14, 20261879-CC Morgan Carson City Silver Dollar NGC G6
- $329NGC VG8 · Sep 13, 20261879 CC Morgan Silver Dollar NGC VG8 VAM-3 Capped CC
- $295NGC G4 · Sep 13, 20261879-CC Carson City Morgan Silver Dollar $1 NGC G4 Business Strike 0.9 Fine
- $250NGC G4 · Sep 10, 202609/00010 L#1976 1879-CC Morgan Silver Dollar NGC G4 (cfj) -B.1
Seller titles, verbatim. An ended eBay listing stays readable for about 90 days, so older links will expire.
Very Fine to XF
VF20 to XF45$932
Median of 12 sales
- Lowest
- $650
- Highest
- $2,358
The 4 most recent sales
- $730NGC VF20 · Sep 10, 20261879-CC Morgan Silver Dollar NGC VF20 Tough Date CC
- $2,145PCGS XF40 · Sep 10, 20261879 CC MORGAN SILVER DOLLAR PCGS XF40 CARSON CITY MINT KEY DATE COIN
- $696PCGS VF20 · Sep 9, 20261879-CC Morgan Silver Dollar Capped Die VF20 PCGS *9599
- $1,014ANACS EF40 · Sep 7, 20261879-CC Morgan Silver Dollar - ANACS EF40 Great Coin
Seller titles, verbatim. An ended eBay listing stays readable for about 90 days, so older links will expire.
About Uncirculated
AU50 to AU58$4,272
Median of 3 sales
- Lowest
- $3,645
- Highest
- $4,500
The 3 most recent sales
- $4,500NGC AU58 · Sep 11, 20261879-CC Morgan Silver Dollar, AU58 NGC
- $3,645PCGS AU50 · Sep 1, 20261879-CC Morgan Dollar AU-50 PCGS (Capped CC)
- $4,272NGC AU58 · Aug 30, 20261879 CC US Morgan Silver Dollar $1 - NGC AU 58 - VAM 3 Capped CC - Top 100
Seller titles, verbatim. An ended eBay listing stays readable for about 90 days, so older links will expire.
How to read these
- The median is the middle sale after removing outliers. The range is every sale kept, including the outliers, so you can see how wide the market actually is.
- Grade drives most of the difference. A band with three sales tells you far less than a band with thirty, and the count is shown so you can weigh it.
- Sales of coins in “Details”, “Genuine” or cleaned holders are excluded, as are proofs, replicas, lots, and mounted coins. Those sell at prices that would not describe the coin on this page.
- So is any sale priced below what this same date fetches in a lower grade, which is impossible for a real coin and is how a counterfeit in a convincing holder gives itself away.
- 1 further qualifying sale fell in a grade band with fewer than 3 sales, which is too few to report a median from, so it is not shown.
Coin Curator does not grade, authenticate, or appraise coins, and holds no licensed price guide or population data. How this data is collected.
Documented varieties
Capped Die (Large Over Small CC)
A large CC mintmark punched over a smaller one, leaving a blurred "capped" appearance around the letters.
Widely recognised varieties only. The VAM reference catalogs thousands of die marriages across these series; the absence of a variety here does not mean none is documented elsewhere.
What to check before buying
Nothing about this date calls for a check beyond the ones that apply to any certified coin.
And for any certified coin
Verify the certification number on the grading service’s own lookup rather than from a photograph of the label, match the listing images to the certification record including grade and any variety attribution, look for cleaning, compare the mintmark against published photographs of the genuine issue, and read the return policy before buying. The grading guide covers each of these in full.
Coin Curator does not grade, authenticate, or appraise coins, and holds no licensed price guide or population data. Where this page shows recent sold prices, they are records of completed eBay sales, not a valuation of any particular coin. These are verification steps, not an appraisal.
Verify a certification number
Look a 1879-CC certification number up on the service’s own site. A photograph of a label proves nothing.
Each service publishes its own guarantee with conditions and exclusions. Compare PCGS, NGC and ANACS.
Find a 1879-CC for sale
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Common questions
How many 1879-CC Morgan dollars were minted?
The Carson City Mint struck 756,000 1879-CC Morgan dollars for circulation. That is the 17th lowest business-strike mintage of the 96 date and mintmark combinations in the series.
Is the 1879-CC Morgan dollar a key date?
Coin Curator labels it a semi-key, assigned from reported mintage alone: under 750,000 struck is a key date and under 2,500,000 is a semi-key. The same thresholds are used for every series on this site, so the tiers are comparable between them. That label describes production, not market value or how hard the coin is to find today. A low-mintage Carson City issue. Many surviving examples show weak or heavily clashed dies, and the year includes a distinct mintmark punch variety.
What varieties exist for the 1879-CC Morgan dollar?
Widely recognised varieties for this issue include Capped Die (Large Over Small CC). A large CC mintmark punched over a smaller one, leaving a blurred "capped" appearance around the letters. Variety attributions should appear on the certification label rather than only in a seller's description.
What should I check before buying an 1879-CC Morgan dollar?
Verify the certification number on the grading service's own lookup page, match the listing photographs to the certification record, check for cleaning, and compare the mintmark shape and position against published photographs of the genuine issue.
Related dates
Guides for this coin
All guides →Morgan Dollar Key Dates and Varieties
The 1893-S, 1895 Proof-only, 1889-CC, and important VAM varieties show why date, mint, attribution, and condition must be researched together.
1 min readVintage GuideCarson City Mint: Why CC Coins Command Premiums
Carson City Mint operated 1870-1885 + 1889-1893. Coins from the silver mined down the road. Low mintages, frontier-era history, and the iconic CC mint mark, the most romantic coins in US numismatics.
2 min readEducationError Coins: Types, Attribution, and Verification
Learn the difference between off-center strikes, doubled dies, mules, broadstrikes, and post-mint damage, plus the records to check before buying.
1 min readBuying GuideMS-63 vs MS-65 vs MS-67: Which Grade to Actually Buy
Adjacent grades can carry very different market evidence. Learn how to compare surfaces, eye appeal, population data, and current records before choosing a grade.
1 min readMintage sources
Mintage figures are U.S. Mint production records, cross-checked against the published tables below on 2026-07-31. Where those tables disagree, the disagreement is disclosed on the affected page rather than resolved silently.
- Wikipedia, "Morgan dollar" mintage figures table — Cites Yeoman (A Guide Book of United States Coins) and Van Allen & Mallis.
- CoinMintages.com, Morgan dollar mintages — Lists business strikes and proofs separately, including the 1878 tail-feather varieties.
- GovMint, Morgan silver dollar mintage chart — Published as sourced from U.S. Mint records.
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