1902-S Morgan Dollar
Semi-keyA lower-mintage San Francisco issue.

Mintage
- Business strikes
- 1,530,000
- Mint
- San Francisco (S)
- Mintage rank
- 27 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 28 San Francisco issues in the series it is the 10th smallest. Of the 18,160,000 struck across all mints in 1902, this issue accounts for 8%. New Orleans struck 5.6 times as many that year. The 1902 split ran New Orleans 8,636,000, Philadelphia 7,994,000 and San Francisco 1,530,000. 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 11, 2026What certified 1902-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$87
Median of 6 sales
- Lowest
- $62
- Highest
- $270
The 4 most recent sales
- $190NGC VG10 · Aug 29, 20261902-S Morgan Silver Dollar 1$ "Tougher Year" *NGC VG10 Very Good* Solid Coin
- $62ANACS G4 · Aug 21, 20261902-S Morgan 90% Silver Dollar Certified ANACS GOOD 4 Authentic UNC Toned Coin
- $270PCGS F15 · Aug 21, 20261902-S Morgan Silver Dollar 1$ "Tougher Year" *PCGS F15 Choice Fine* Solid Coin
- $90PCGS VG8 · Jul 26, 20261902-S PCGS VG08 MORGAN SILVER DOLLAR S$1 VERY GOOD 8
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$250
Median of 8 sales
- Lowest
- $214
- Highest
- $350
The 4 most recent sales
- $250PCGS VF30 · Aug 30, 20261902 S Morgan Silver Dollar $1, VF 30 PCGS, Dark toning and nice surfaces
- $299NGC XF45 · Aug 28, 20261902-S Morgan Silver Dollar NGC XF 45
- $214NGC VF30 · Aug 8, 20261902-S Morgan Silver Dollar 1$ "Tougher Year" *NGC VF 30 Very Good* Solid Coin
- $228PCGS VF30 · Jul 29, 20261902-S Morgan Dollar, PCGS VF30, dove golden gray DKRC's DOLLAR DEAL WEDNESDAY!
Seller titles, verbatim. An ended eBay listing stays readable for about 90 days, so older links will expire.
About Uncirculated
AU50 to AU58$495
Median of 13 sales
- Lowest
- $340
- Highest
- $626
The 4 most recent sales
- $595PCGS AU58 · Sep 10, 20261902-S Morgan Dollar, Choice Almost Uncirculated PCGS AU-58, Better Date
- $550NGC AU58 · Sep 9, 20261902-S Morgan Silver Dollar Better Date NGC AU58
- $626PCGS AU58 · Sep 1, 20261902-S Morgan Silver Dollar $1 PCGS AU58 - Very PQ!
- $340ANACS AU50 · Sep 1, 2026Morgan Dollar 1902 S Au 50 Anacs
Seller titles, verbatim. An ended eBay listing stays readable for about 90 days, so older links will expire.
Mint State
MS60 and above$1,085
Median of 8 sales
- Lowest
- $735
- Highest
- $1,811
The 4 most recent sales
- $1,811NGC MS64 · Sep 11, 20261902-S Morgan Dollar S$1 NGC MS64
- $1,508PCGS MS62 · Aug 31, 20261902 S Morgan Silver Dollar PCGS MS62 CAC Rattler OGH Bright White
- $970NGC MS62 · Aug 23, 20261902-S Tough date Morgan dollar, NGC MS62, choice original DavidKahnRareCoins
- $899NGC MS62 · Jul 26, 20261902-S $1 MORGAN DOLLAR - NGC MS-62, FRESH & FLASHY!
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 1902-S 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 1902-S for sale
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Common questions
How many 1902-S Morgan dollars were minted?
The San Francisco Mint struck 1,530,000 1902-S Morgan dollars for circulation. That is the 27th lowest business-strike mintage of the 96 date and mintmark combinations in the series.
Is the 1902-S 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 lower-mintage San Francisco issue.
What should I check before buying a 1902-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.
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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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