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Greatest silver strike in history?
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)
Very nicely done
Here are some comments. I made some changes directly.
- Lede
- Something should be said in the lede about the 1921 resurrection of the Morgan dollar.
- Do you think it is "Morgan Dollar" or "Morgan dollar"?
- Background
- Lede mentions free coinage of silver and gold, body just mentions silver. Also, you should somewhere mention and link to "Free Silver"
- "Protests also came" You haven't mentioned any protests yet.
- Restore legal tender. What you've written is a bit fuzzy. Certainly the Trade dollar was not a legal tender, though some argue that the Coinage Act of 1965 made it legal tender. But standard silver dollars (Seated Liberty, for example) as far as I know have always been legal tender. What you really mean, I think, is that they wanted to coin legal-tender dollars, not trade dollars.
- Design history
- "Chief Engraver". He's often called that. Technically, he was "Engraver of the Mint". I think either "Chief Engraver" or "Engraver" would be fine, so long as you are consistent about it. I learned this during doing these coin articles.
- Production
- "Linderman desired to involve the western mints of San Francisco and Carson City in production in order to help reach the monthly quota necessary under the Bland–Allison act" Well, yeah, but also the fact that they were nearer the silver mines might have had something to do with it. Does the source mention it?
- You probably should mention that at that time, all dies were prepared at Philly and shipped.
- Sherman Act
- You probably should mention when the Sherman Act was passed. Also be good to mention why the act was repealed.
- Pittman Act
- The Pittman Act did not need to mention the redesign. The replacement of the Morgan dollar was authorized by the Act of September 26, 1890 which is a footnote in Liberty Head nickel.
- Treasury releasee somewhere in there,
- Probably should mention that they were cashing in silver certificates, and that most silver coins thereafter ceased to be struck for circulation.
When I get a chance, I'll look to get you more detail, I'm sure Taxay talks about the Morgan Dollar. And my copy of Breen.--Wehwalt (talk) 02:20, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks for the suggestions and for all the edits. I've fixed nearly everything you mentioned, but I'm unsure of two things. Firstly, I don't know if Linderman's interest in the western mints had anything to do with their proximity the great silver deposits or not. I don't see anything in my source about that. I'm certain that the location probably did weigh on their minds, though. I'll reread the whole section of the book again to make absolutely sure that there's no mention, because it does seem like an important fact.
- Secondly, as for the Peace dollar thing, the only reason I mentioned that is because that's what the source said. From what I understand, officials used the Pittman act as justification for the redesign, even though it wasn't necessary or even correct. I'm not really sure what to make of it. It's the Red Book, so it seems very reliable, but I don't know where I could find a second source to be 100% sure.
- Anyway, thanks again for all the help! By the way, the Breen book is really great. I never owned one because the aftermarket price is so high, but I read quite a bit of it when it was briefly offered online for free.-RHM22 (talk) 06:05, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
- I haven't looked at Breen yet, but Taxay contains a considerable amount of detail on the inception of the Morgan dollar. The Mint was very much on the ball on this one (unusual for them) and that is why Morgan was doing all those patterns. I will add it in when I get the chance, certainly some time this week. The nickel passed FA, so that is good. I am hopeful of getting to Peace dollar this week but time is short and Carousel (musical) is complicated. You might want to see if you could get a cheap used copy of Bowers' book on Morgans.--Wehwalt (talk) 14:47, 20 December 2010 (UTC)