1885-CC Morgan Dollar
Key dateThe lowest business-strike mintage of any Carson City Morgan. As with the other CC dates, a large fraction survived in Treasury storage and was released through the GSA sales.
Mintage
- Business strikes
- 228,000
- Mint
- Carson City (CC)
- Mintage rank
- 4 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
It is the smallest of the 13 Carson City issues in the series. Of the 28,697,000 struck across all mints in 1885, this issue accounts for under 1%. Philadelphia struck 78 times as many that year. The 1885 split ran Philadelphia 17,787,000, New Orleans 9,185,000, San Francisco 1,497,000 and Carson City 228,000. 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.
About this figure
Sources disagree. The Wikipedia table and GovMint report 228,000; CoinMintages reports 238,000. The majority figure is used here.
Scarcity tier
Key date
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 14, 2026 · most recent sale Sep 13, 2026What certified 1885-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.
Mint State
MS60 and above$1,025
Median of 56 sales
- Lowest
- $150
- Highest
- $15,515
The 4 most recent sales
- $2,250NGC MS63 · Sep 13, 20261885-CC Morgan Silver Dollar NGC MS63 DPL Deep Prooflike GSA Hoard Box COA
- $850NGC MS61 · Sep 13, 20261885-CC GSA Morgan Dollar, NGC MS61
- $670NGC MS62 · Sep 13, 20261885 CC Morgan silver dollar Graded MS-62 by NGC!! Historic Carson City mint
- $1,025PCGS MS64 · Sep 12, 20261885 CC Morgan Silver Dollar PCGS MS64
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.
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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 1885-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 1885-CC for sale
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Common questions
How many 1885-CC Morgan dollars were minted?
The Carson City Mint struck 228,000 1885-CC Morgan dollars for circulation. That is the 4th lowest business-strike mintage of the 96 date and mintmark combinations in the series.
Is the 1885-CC Morgan dollar a key date?
Coin Curator labels it a key date, 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. The lowest business-strike mintage of any Carson City Morgan. As with the other CC dates, a large fraction survived in Treasury storage and was released through the GSA sales.
What should I check before buying an 1885-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.
Why do sources give different mintage figures for the 1885-CC?
Sources disagree. The Wikipedia table and GovMint report 228,000; CoinMintages reports 238,000. The majority figure is used here.
Related dates
Guides for this coin
All guides →Morgan Dollar Key Dates and Varieties
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2 min readEducationWhat Makes a Coin a “Key Date”, and Why It Drives Value
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1 min readBuying GuideApproachable Key-Date Coins to Research First
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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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