Minted in 1878 as a political compromise for silver miners, the Morgan Dollar became the coin of the American frontier — circulating through mining camps, cattle towns, and railroad commissaries....
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A nail file. A pocketknife. A Buffalo nickel worth five cents. In the hands of Bertram Wiegand, George Washington Hughes, or Bo Hughes, that coin became something else entirely —...
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