CC mint mark

How to read it

The Mint says the Carson City Mint was set up to serve the coinage needs of the Comstock Lode, the largest silver strike in US history. Its first coins, Seated Liberty dollars with the CC mint mark, were struck on February 11, 1870. It struck eight denominations: dimes, twenty-cent pieces, quarters, half dollars, Trade dollars, Morgan dollars, and $5, $10 and $20 gold pieces. The mint was closed from 1885 to 1889, struck its last coins in the spring of 1893, lost its mint status in 1899 and was an assay office until 1933. The building is now the Nevada State Museum.

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CC on Morgan dollars

CoinWeek dates Carson City’s Morgan dollars to 1878 to 1885 and 1889 to 1893, with the CC on the reverse, below the ribbon loops and above the DO of DOLLAR. The Mint says the General Services Administration sold nearly 2.8 million Carson City Morgan dollars in seven sales between 1972 and 1980. The Nevada State Museum shows a complete set of them, with the mint’s Coin Press No. 1.

CC or C

A single C is Charlotte’s mark, on gold coins struck in North Carolina from 1838 to 1861. Carson City’s CC is two letters, and its coins are dated 1870 to 1893, so their dates do not overlap.