Coin Roll Blog

US Trade Dollars is yet another incredibly hot coin collectible out there. With their limited mint years and interesting history, they’ve become more and more popular over the last few years. US Trade Dollars were minted exclusively for trade with Asian nations (China, Korea and Japan).

With the current rise in metal prices, some of these larger silver coins have become a bargain to purchase for additional silver stock piles. The US Trade Dollar is similar to other silver coins minted for US circulation (90% silver 10% copper), but the US Trade Dollar is a bit heavier at 420 grains. Common dollars (such as the Morgan Silver Dollar) weigh in at 412.5 grains.

US Trade Dollars were only minted from 1873 to 1885 and was designed by William Barber.

If you’re interested in purchasing US Trade Dollars, then you need to check out USTradeDollars.com for the great deals currently on eBay. Years are broken down as well as some popular search options (mints, certified, etc).

Over the years, you’ve seen it. Mainly men have this, but coin based jewelry is hotter than ever. With the holiday season quickly approaching, it might be the perfect gift for the coin collecting nut in the family.

For those that aren’t too familiar with what I’m talking about, I’m referring to actual coins as the center piece for a particular piece of jewelry. This is more often worn by men, and can come in a variety of styles from money clips (Morgan Dollar money clips are quite popular), to bolo ties to pendants and rings. As I type the rings, I can think of my uncle with his Indian head penny ring. Very cool.

With this said, I wanted to point out a site that focuses on coin based jewelry called BuyCoinJewelry.com. The site allows you to quickly find and access different genres of coin jewelry and allows for searching specific coin and jewelry types. According to eBay’s data, coin jewelry is very ‘hot’ sub-niche in the world of coin collectors.

Morgan Dollar Store just announced that they released many updates to their site. Morgan Dollar Store, is a great resource and tool to find auctions on eBay related to Morgan Silver Dollars. eBay is a powerful auction platform, but can be time consuming finding the coins you’re commonly looking for. Morgan Dollar store breaks down circulation years so you can easily drill down to your desired years. Once you’re in a search result you can search for graded coins only, etc. These features are still there, but they added some great new features recently.

• Morgan Dollar Search handling. You can know search within the Morgan dollar category for specific search
• Morgan Dollar Search Cloud. This is pretty nice, it’ll show the popular searches performed by others on the site over the last three months. A good indicator of potential ‘hot’ searches or trends in the Morgan Dollar category.
• Additional Morgan dollar categories. They’re now offering additional categories like VAMs, Error Coins, Rolls, Mixed Lots, Sets and Proof coins.
• Morgan dollar mint city categories. Along with the new categories, they’re displaying mint cities: San Francisco, Philadelphia, Denver, Carson City and New Orleans.
• Morgan Dollar image gallery showing interesting example of Morgan silver dollars.
• Twitter. They’re showing recent Tweets relating to Morgan dollars. They currently don’t have a Twitter account though, so you can’t follow them.

Along with these new changes, they also mentioned future updates including comments, ratings and featured seller areas. These area great suggestions and I can see how they’re continuing to promote Morgan dollar sales and how they’re making it easier for us to find and collect these great coins.

Get not one coin, but SEVEN New Orleans Mint Morgan Silver Dollars — one each from the first seven years the New Orleans Mint struck the popular coin! $649 View Item

New Orleans is known as “The Big Easy” for its laid back lifestyle, but there’s nothing laid back about the Morgan Silver Dollars struck by the famous New Orleans Mint. The only U.S. mint to be controlled by three government bodies – the United States of America, the Confederate States of America and the state of Louisiana – the New Orleans Mint minted its last Morgan in 1904.

Besides the popularity of coins struck with the New Orleans Mint’s legendary “O” mint mark, the fact that many of the Morgans struck there were destroyed in silver melts or were worn out in circulation makes O-Mint Morgans some of the most coveted in the entire series. Now you can get not one, but SEVEN New Orleans Mint Morgan Silver Dollars – one each from the first seven years the New Orleans Mint struck the popular coin!

Besides the coveted 1879-O Morgan – the first Morgan struck by the new Orleans Mint – you’ll also get the key date 1883-O, 1884-O and 1885-O Morgans, coins that were almost unheard of until the release of the U.S. Treasury Hoard in the 1960s.

Each collection comes beautifully housed in a custom presentation case and includes a storycard about the New Orleans Mint. Plus, you’ll also save by getting all seven coins now instead of buying them individually.