Name: Pawn Stars: SUPER RARE SCARFACE SILVER DOLLAR COIN (Season 17) | History
Uploaded: 2020-03-21T05:00:11.000Z
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A "Scarface" Morgan silver dollar, top 100 variety.

It's got probably the coolest name, though.

"Scarface" variety that I'm coming into the pawn shop,

it's the most popular collected coin in the United States.

Morgan silver dollars, they came out in 1878.

The reason why it's called a Morgan dollar

because we wanted prettier coins because they were kind of blah,

So they called him, and he made this beautiful design.

And it literally came out of the mint like this.

By making silver dollars, the government would actually

So we wanted tons of silver dollars in circulation.

it's a steel die on one side, another steel

And they put a planchette at the center of it.

So the machine starts stamping them out really quickly.

And so Lady Liberty here has a scar down her face.

up in the bags of silver dollars that were going to banks.

And some of them actually got out in circulation.

It's actually been selling in my collection for four years.

I thought it was a scratch for four years,

and did some research, and found out it's actually pretty rare.

I've never seen one of these things in person before.

I've seen them in books and, like, magazines,

So you probably paid, like, 20 bucks for it.

There's a weird market in coins of people who collect errors.

And it's, like, one of the coolest errors.

I have no idea if that's the right price.

But when you start talking rare, weird stuff,

I got a friend who specializes just basically in weird coins.

This is one of the most significant of the errors

This one is particularly expensive because it

This die was probably literally almost falling apart

So you can tell from here, the die is broken

So there are four acknowledged states of this.

And collectors of these kinds of things, the more destruction,

If you got this in the first die state, it's $125 coin.

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