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Morgan, Peace Dollar Prices Surge

In my December 2020 column about the forthcoming 2021 Morgan and Peace silver dollars, I warned to expect rising prices on the circulated common-date issues of these series.

That has already happened.

In mid-January 2020, with the silver spot price about $18, the company where I work was offering 1,000-coin bags of Very Good or better Peace dollars at $16,350. Today, with the silver spot price more than 40 percent higher than then, you would have difficulty even finding that quantity of coins. If you could locate them, you

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