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What happened to Booker T Washington's children?

Portia Washington Pittman died February, 1978 in Texas. She was an pianist.


How many Morgan Silver Dollar coins were melted down by the U S government between 1917 and 1920?

The provisions of the Pittman Act of 1918 resulted in 270,232,722 silver dollars of unknown dates and mintmarks to have been melted.


Why did the us not mint silver dollars from 1905 to 1920?

They stopped minting silver dollars after 1904 because the mint ran out of silver bullion. The Pittman Act of 1918 provided for the melting of 270,232,722 silver dollars and minting resumed in 1921.


What is the history of a 1921-O Morgan dollar?

I am not aware of a 1921 Morgan Dollar that carries a mint mark of "O." However, the 1921 series do carry mint marks of "D'" and "S." However, what is interseting about the 1921 Morgan Dollars is that they were produced by the US mint after a hiatus of 17 years - secondary to the The Pittman Act that required that all silver dollars be melted. More info - There could not be a 1921-O dollar because the New Orleans mint closed in 1909. 1921 was the only year that Morgan dollars were struck in Denver, because the Denver mint opened in 1906, two years into that hiatus.


What is the history of the Morgan silver dollars?

I love the history of Morgan Dollar starting in 1878 with the Bland-Allison Act that required the Treasury purchase a grand total of 2-4 million dollars of silver every month. By 1890 the government passed a new act called the Sherman Silver Purchase Act now the treasury had to purchase $4,500,000 ounces of silver every month. A lot of that silver found a home sitting in the treasury vaults instead of being minted. So in 1898 congress approved yet another bill that required that silver be minted. By 1904 the storage of silver had run out and so did the time for the Morgan Dollar. But wait in 1918 the Pittman Act was passed this authorized the melting of up to 350,000,000 silver dollars. One provision in the act stated the replacement of all silver dollars melted thus we have one more year in 1921 that the Morgan Dollar was minted. That same year the Peace dollar was minted.