The Seven Over Eight Morgan Dollar - A Heirloom Acquisition With An Beautiful Legend
The Morgan dollar was designed by George T. Morgan from England. Morgan won a staged contest held by the employer of the Philadelphia mint, Henry P. Linderman, for the imitation of the coin. Linderman was not convivial with the designs of the Manager Engraver at the time, so the staged contest allowed him to applicability Morgan and annex bounteous input into the constitution of the coin. The coin's diagram had the belief of Freedom on the face, which was Linderman's suggestion, with a rather scrawny-looking bald eagle on the coins obverse (tails) side. It's unclear if the inaccuracy lies with Morgan's originate or with the maker of the die used to strike the coin, on the other hand industry began in 1878 with the bald eagle having eight tail feathers. ...
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