1895-O Morgan Dollar
Key dateA low-mintage New Orleans issue that is common enough in low circulated grades but very difficult in mint state, and typically weakly struck.

Mintage
- Business strikes
- 450,000
- Mint
- New Orleans (O)
- Mintage rank
- 11 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 2nd smallest. Of the 850,000 struck across all mints in 1895, this issue accounts for 53%. The 1895 split ran New Orleans 450,000 and San Francisco 400,000. 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: 850,000 against 3,093,000 in 1894. 1895 was the smallest production year of the entire series. In 1895 the coin was struck at New Orleans and San Francisco; Philadelphia and Carson City struck none.
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 13, 2026What certified 1895-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$410
Median of 14 sales
- Lowest
- $229
- Highest
- $595
The 4 most recent sales
- $495PCGS F15 · Sep 13, 20261895-O Morgan Silver Dollar PCGS F-15 Hard to find Key Date. Ships Free
- $425ANACS F12 · Sep 8, 20261895-O F12 ANACS $1 Morgan Dollar 90% Silver New Orleans US Coin KEY DATE!
- $425NGC F15 · Sep 8, 20261895 O morgan dollar NGC F15
- $395PCGS F15 · Sep 6, 20261895-O Morgan Silver Dollar $1 PCGS F15 Key Date New Orleans Certified Coin
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$563
Median of 18 sales
- Lowest
- $420
- Highest
- $1,195
The 4 most recent sales
- $482PCGS VF25 · Sep 13, 20261895-O Rare date Morgan dollar, PCGS VF25, very pleasing coin DavidKahnRareCoins
- $420PCGS VF35 · Sep 10, 20261895-O Morgan Dollar $1 PCGS VF35 Business Strike 90% Silver New Orleans
- $950NGC XF45 · Sep 9, 20261895 O US Mint Morgan 90% Silver $1 Dollar Coin Certified ~ NGC XF45 ~ Free Ship
- $421ANACS VF30 · Sep 6, 20261895-O #54. Graded VF-30 by ANACS. KEY DATE! $1 Morgan Silver Dollar Key date
Seller titles, verbatim. An ended eBay listing stays readable for about 90 days, so older links will expire.
About Uncirculated
AU50 to AU58$1,702
Median of 8 sales
- Lowest
- $1,050
- Highest
- $5,100
The 4 most recent sales
- $1,525NGC AU50 · Sep 10, 2026NGC AU50 1895-O Morgan Silver Dollar $1 Supremely Rare Coin-Only 450,000 Minted
- $1,800PCGS AU50 · Sep 7, 20261895-O $1 Morgan Dollar PCGS AU50 90% Silver New Orleans US Coin
- $5,100PCGS AU58 · Sep 6, 20261895-O Morgan Silver Dollar - PCGS AU 58 - Gold Shield
- $1,949PCGS AU53 · Sep 5, 20261895-O MORGAN SILVER DOLLAR!!! PCGS AU53!!! KEY DATE!!!!
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.
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 1895-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 1895-O for sale
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Common questions
How many 1895-O Morgan dollars were minted?
The New Orleans Mint struck 450,000 1895-O Morgan dollars for circulation. That is the 11th lowest business-strike mintage of the 96 date and mintmark combinations in the series.
Is the 1895-O 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. A low-mintage New Orleans issue that is common enough in low circulated grades but very difficult in mint state, and typically weakly struck.
What should I check before buying an 1895-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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