1894-O Morgan Dollar
Semi-keyAvailable in circulated grades but decidedly scarce well struck and in mint state.

Mintage
- Business strikes
- 1,723,000
- Mint
- New Orleans (O)
- Mintage rank
- 29 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 26 New Orleans issues in the series it is the 3rd smallest. Of the 3,093,000 struck across all mints in 1894, this issue accounts for 56%. That is 16 times the Philadelphia figure for the same year. The 1894 split ran New Orleans 1,723,000, San Francisco 1,260,000 and Philadelphia 110,000. The series median is 5,000,000, so fewer than half as many of these were struck as a typical date. Series-wide output rose sharply that year: 3,093,000 against 1,455,000 in 1893. 1894 was the 3rd smallest production year of the 28 in the series. In 1894 the coin was struck at Philadelphia, New Orleans and San Francisco; Carson City struck none.
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 15, 2026What certified 1894-O 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$125
Median of 5 sales
- Lowest
- $87
- Highest
- $166
The 4 most recent sales
- $100PCGS G4 · Sep 9, 20261894 O Morgan Silver Dollar PCGS G 4
- $166PCGS F15 · Sep 9, 20261894-O Morgan Silver Dollar PCGS F15 TRIBS
- $87PCGS AG3 · Aug 31, 20261894-O (AG03) Morgan Silver Dollar $1 PCGS - Better Date
- $125PCGS G6 · Aug 22, 20261894-O Morgan Dollar G06 PCGS - Choice & Original!
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$157
Median of 12 sales
- Lowest
- $125
- Highest
- $241
The 4 most recent sales
- $155PCGS XF40 · Sep 7, 20261894-O MORGAN SILVER DOLLAR PCGS CERTIFIED XF40 - KEY DATE
- $130NGC VF35 · Sep 3, 2026Morgan Silver Dollar $1 1894-O New Orleans Mint Business Strike NGC VF35
- $129NGC VF25 · Sep 2, 20261894 O Morgan Silver Dollar NGC VF25, Lower Mintage
- $159NGC VF35 · Aug 30, 2026U.S. 1894-O MORGAN DOLLAR NGC VF-35
Seller titles, verbatim. An ended eBay listing stays readable for about 90 days, so older links will expire.
About Uncirculated
AU50 to AU58$385
Median of 20 sales
- Lowest
- $266
- Highest
- $1,100
The 4 most recent sales
- $435PCGS AU55 · Sep 15, 20261894-O $1 Morgan Silver Dollar AU55 PCGS 59496248
- $384PCGS AU53 · Sep 15, 20261894 O Morgan Silver Dollar PCGS AU53 Tough Date Morgan
- $385PCGS AU50 · Sep 15, 20261894-O Morgan Silver Dollar Coin PCGS AU 50 ** Nice Luster, Better Date!
- $1,059NGC AU58 · Sep 14, 20261894-O Morgan Dollar NGC AU58 Circulated Key Date $1
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.
- 2 further qualifying sales fell in a grade band with fewer than 3 sales, which is too few to report a median from, so they are 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.
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 1894-O 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 1894-O for sale
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Common questions
How many 1894-O Morgan dollars were minted?
The New Orleans Mint struck 1,723,000 1894-O Morgan dollars for circulation. That is the 29th lowest business-strike mintage of the 96 date and mintmark combinations in the series.
Is the 1894-O 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. Available in circulated grades but decidedly scarce well struck and in mint state.
What should I check before buying an 1894-O 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.
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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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