Talk:Morgan dollar

message: The History section starts with "The Comstock Lode, the greatest silver strike in history..."
Comstock yielded much less silver than Potosí (192 million oz, according to Econ Geol (1989) 84:1574-1613), so I fear the word "greatest" is misleading at best. How about rephrasing to something like "one of the greatest silver strikes..."? Comments/criticisms?
(Be gentle with me, I'm a wikipedia newbie) Bobrayner (talk) 15:56, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Greatest silver strike in history?

message: The 2nd sentence is confusing: "It was the first standard silver dollar minted since production of that denomination ceased due to the passage of the Fourth Coinage Act, an act which also ended the free coining of silver."
Can someone who knows about these coins clean it up. Thanks.
:::: You dont use the words "coin" and "clean" in the same sentence  13:35, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Lol!  fixed.--Wehwalt (talk) 13:49, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  quick fix 

message: Maybe somebody can add some discussion on survival rates of the different mintage years?   One theory is theres no way to determine how many of each year survived.   But PCGS, the biggest coin grading service, has on their website a figure of how many survived of each year, after the Pittman Act.   Marc S. Dania Fl  13:35, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: That seems reasonable.  RHM22 is retired from Wikipedia; he wrote this article.  I am traveling for the next three weeks, if you can wait til then, I'll work something up after consulting my other references.--Wehwalt (talk) 13:45, 25 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It is a very reasonable request, but I'm not sure that the information available is reliable enough. It is indeed impossible to determine the number extant with any level of accuracy. The PCGS numbers are a good start, but there is no way to determine what percentage of the existing coins were submitted for grading. Furthermore, it is common practice to open encapsulated coins and resubmit them when one believes that they have been under-graded, further polluting the numbers. Excepting cases of extreme rarity (such as the 1804 dollar), it is prudent to not include such figures.-RHM22 (talk) 05:21, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: PCGS survival estimates after the Pittman Act

message: User:RHM22:
I'm translating this article to Chinese Wikipedia at here, but I just got a problem, footnote NO. 36, "Highfill pp 73-83", what's the Highfill stand for? I can't found this source.--Jarodalien (talk) 15:55, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Jarodalien. That's great! I'm glad that this is being translated for another audience. As for the citation you mentioned, I've removed it. It was added last year by an editor who was trying to advertise his own book. I removed the bibliography mention, but I missed that other reference. Anyway, you don't need to worry about including that. Please let me know if you have any other questions or comments about my coin articles, and I'll be happy to help where possible.-RHM22 (talk) 16:10, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the follow up so soon, I just finished translation. I found a book in Peace dollar minutes ago:
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but there's no citation point to this book, so is this another ad? There were two "Highfill" at that article, but no one cited.--Jarodalien (talk) 16:27, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I'd say that's probably another ad. I don't know the quality of Highfill's book, but it doesn't seem relevant to the articles. I think you can safely remove those from your Chinese translations. Wehwalt is the author of the Peace Dollar article, so he might know more about that.-RHM22 (talk) 16:36, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't recall specifically. I expect you are right.--Wehwalt (talk) 23:03, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  source problem 

message: At present this will be a mystery to uninformed readers. Spicemix (talk) 12:58, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  e pluribus unum 

message: There is a photo of Morgan at George T. Morgan, but it's not very good and we already have almost too many photos. It does seem like there should be a photo of the guy the coin is named after. Kendall-K1 (talk) 17:18, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo of Morgan 

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