Award-winning author Robert R. Van Ryzin sheds new and illuminating light on the creation of the Morgan and Silver Trade dollars. From the mine to the mint, never-before-published information reveals wrong-doing at the highest levels of the U.S. Mint. As a complete price guide for Morgan and Trade Silver dollars, information is provided on which dates are rare, scarce and valuable. Collectors of U.S. coins, the Old West and historians of the economy and mining industry will all enjoy this richly told and highly inclusive story.