AboutMyCoin1886 Morgan Dollar (No Mint Mark) in AU50
An 1886 Morgan dollar with no mint mark graded AU50 is that coin in one particular state of preservation — the date and the mint mark are already fixed, and AU50 is what a grader called the surface that survived. What that looks like on this coin is below. The nearest grade of this date this site does have a researched figure for is Mint State (MS-65), at $182 to $305, from sales and public data.
What AU50 means
An 1886 Morgan dollar with no mint mark in About Uncirculated (AU-50) circulated briefly and barely: the hair above Liberty’s ear and the cotton bolls in her cap are flattened where they stand highest, the eagle’s breast feathers and the tops of its wings show the same, some of the original mint lustre survives in the fields around them, and every other detail is as it was struck.
A slab, a dealer’s list or a price guide may write this grade AU-50. They are the same grade and the same 1886 Morgan dollar with no mint mark.
Where this grade sits
The grades an 1886 Morgan dollar with no mint mark is given run from PO1 to MS70. One step up from AU50 is About Uncirculated (AU-53). In general terms, the higher the grade the more the coin is worth.
A blank in the value column is a grade this site has not researched, not a grade the coin is worth nothing in.
How to check this yourself
Sold listings, not asking prices. The link below is already filtered to completed sales of an 1886 Morgan dollar with no mint mark in AU50, which is the difference between what somebody paid and what somebody hoped for. Until this site has a researched figure for this grade, that search is the answer — take the middle of several recent sales rather than the highest.
Completed sales of an 1886 Morgan Dollar (No Mint Mark) in AU50 →
The metal floor under it
$49.79
0.7734 troy oz silver × $64.38 per troy ounce
$64.38/ozt, based on spot prices at 23 September 2026 19:59 UTC
Whatever the market does, an 1886 Morgan dollar with no mint mark cannot be worth less than the metal in it. That figure is what the premium for AU50 is measured against, and it moves with the metal price rather than with the coin market.
Where these figures come from
We gather publicly available data from several public sources including eBay, PCGS, NGC, Numista, USA Coin Book, PriceCharting, and others.
Not an appraisal. AboutMyCoin estimates from published specifications and does not authenticate or grade coins.
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