by Stuart Englert, Stuart Englert’s Substack:
Not all old, tarnished and worn silver coins are melt-worthy junk, even if they’re commonly called junk silver. Sometimes circulated legal tender coins are treasured keepsakes with memories that last a lifetime.
I own one of those coins.
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The 1893 CC Morgan Silver Dollar I gifted to my mother in 1974 is a memento with far more than monetary or numismatic value. The 132-year-old coin evokes a cherished recollection of my coin-collecting mom. It also affirms my longtime reverence for American history and affinity for silver-based money.
I acquired the coin largely by happenstance.
A Fortuitous Trade
As a kid, I collected U.S. postage stamps. I admired them for commemorating and depicting significant people, places and events since the nation’s founding.
One afternoon I was sitting on the front porch with a middle-school buddy, showing him my stamp collection. He expressed an interest in starting his own collection and suggested trading a silver dollar he had for some of my old stamps.
He reached into his pocket, pulled out the coin and handed it to me. It was my mother’s birthday and I knew she’d appreciate it as a gift. I agreed to the trade, giving my friend a dozen or so duplicate, postmarked stamps from the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s in exchange for his late 19th-century coin.
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