Morgan Dollar 1878 Collector's Dream Year Set of 6

This Morgan Dollar 1878 Dream Year Collector’s Set is personally assembled by Rick Tomaska and contains all six varieties of the Morgan Silver Dollar’s first year of issue in Brilliant Uncirculated condition. The Morgan Silver Dollar originally depicted an eagle with eight tail feathers, but this was quickly changed to a seven tail feathered eagle. This was due to the fact that every eagle to appear on American coins up until this point had seven feathers. Among the rarest coins of this set is the “1878 8 Tail Feathers,” which has the low mintage of only 749,500. Another key rarity in this set is the error coin called the “7 Over 8 Tail Feathers,” which occurred when dies from both the seven and eight tail feather designs were struck onto the same planchet.

The Morgan Silver Dollar was put into production due to the Bland-Allison Act of 1878, which required the U.S. Treasury to purchase two to four million dollars of silver every month. This silver was all to be used in order to strike new silver coinage. The Bland-Allison Act was initially passed in order to make use of the enormous quantities of silver that were found in deposits out west, such as the famous Comstock Lode.