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1893-S Morgan Dollar

Key date

The lowest business-strike mintage in the series at 100,000, and the date most collectors treat as the series key. Most of the mintage circulated, so mint-state survivors are exceptionally few.

Obverse of an 1879-S Morgan dollar
Representative image of the series, not of this date or mintmark. Verify the exact date, mintmark and variety on the coin you are considering.

Mintage

Business strikes
100,000
Mint
San Francisco (S)
Mintage rank
2 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 28 San Francisco issues in the series. Of the 1,455,000 struck across all mints in 1893, this issue accounts for 7%. Carson City struck 6.8 times as many that year. The 1893 split ran Carson City 677,000, Philadelphia 378,000, New Orleans 300,000 and San Francisco 100,000. The series median is 5,000,000, so fewer than half as many of these were struck as a typical date. Series-wide output fell that year: 1,455,000 against 6,332,000 in 1892. 1893 was the 2nd smallest production year of the 28 in the series.

Every sentence above is computed from the mintage table on this page, not asserted separately.

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 12, 2026

What certified 1893-S 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

$4,950

Median of 20 sales

Lowest
$3,803
Highest
$11,500
The 4 most recent sales

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

$9,900

Median of 12 sales

Lowest
$8,400
Highest
$29,850
The 4 most recent sales

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.

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What to check before buying

Specific to the 1893-S:

  1. 1This is the most counterfeited and most frequently altered date in the series, commonly produced by adding an S mintmark to an 1893-P. Buy certified, and verify the certification number against the grading service's own lookup.
  2. 2Compare the S mintmark shape and placement against published photographs of genuine examples.

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 1893-S certification number up on the service’s own site. A photograph of a label proves nothing.

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Each service publishes its own guarantee with conditions and exclusions. Compare PCGS, NGC and ANACS.

Find a 1893-S for sale

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Common questions

How many 1893-S Morgan dollars were minted?

The San Francisco Mint struck 100,000 1893-S Morgan dollars for circulation. That is the 2nd lowest business-strike mintage of the 96 date and mintmark combinations in the series.

Is the 1893-S 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 in the series at 100,000, and the date most collectors treat as the series key. Most of the mintage circulated, so mint-state survivors are exceptionally few.

What should I check before buying an 1893-S 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. This is the most counterfeited and most frequently altered date in the series, commonly produced by adding an S mintmark to an 1893-P. Buy certified, and verify the certification number against the grading service's own lookup.

Related dates

1893-P378,0001893-CC677,0001893-O300,0001892-S1,200,0001894-S1,260,0001891-S5,296,000

Guides for this coin

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What Makes a Coin a “Key Date”, and Why It Drives Value

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Approachable Key-Date Coins to Research First

Seven dates that teach scarcity, identification, grade tradeoffs, and counterfeit-aware buying, without promising a fixed price or resale result.

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Mintage 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.

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