Tough set - is 100% achievable?

GSA Carson City Morgan dollars are an interesting and historically important subset. Other collectors have fairly extensive writeups on the history of the Carson City mint, the silver mines and the GSA sales in the 1970's, and I won't try to repeat them here.

I started the GSA subset as part of my Morgan set. My objective with the Morgans was to get as many dates in MS-65 as I can afford (while also limiting the search to nice, appealing examples). Same for the GSA's. I have been fortunate to find MS-65+ examples for the 1881, 1882, and 1883 dates and very nice MS-65's for the 1884 and 1885. The rest will have to be lower grades, starting with the 1880-CC Reverse of 1879 that was recently added.

The 1878 and the 1880 Reverse of 1878 won't be too difficult. The remaining three, 1879, 1890 and 1891 are rare in GSA holders, with populations under 600 for each date, and only nine of those at MS-65. Those three will be tough to afford in any grade. For comparisin, there are over 4,000 1884-CC GSA MS-65's.

The obverse of the 1885-CC is attached. Looks like a candidate for PL to me but apparently didn't quite make it.

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