1922 High Relief Proof Matte Peace Dollar on Pawn Stars

I'd have it reholdered with a regular ngc label again if I bought it is not like the Hawaii 5-o 1913 liberty nickel. I think this provenance adds zero value

 

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In this case a negative added value

 

I would think that the sort of people who would have the interest and money in this type of coin would not care about that sort of label - or not even want it. I know that if I were to get the coin, I'd reholder it immediately.

 

If one of Pawn Stars' "old prospector" people brought in the Hawaii Five-O Nickel, we would have a coin televison star on two shows, 40 years apart.

 

They got that one on right now. Nice coin but I'd never pay near that. Not a peace dollar collector got 2 for my type set one I paid $75 for years ago graded 63 to my surprise and the other I paid $1150 for

 

I'd rather a cardboard flip over a pawn stars label. In fact I could care less about any labels beyond a cool pedigree like eliasberg or bass.

 

+1

 

But..but...it's from the "On Air Collection"

 

that sure seemed WAAAAAAAAAAY overpriced to me..........just from looking around at other ones........ABSOLUTELY I could be wrong!

 

PAWN STARS label????????? Are they in the grading business now too????
I love the show but theres NO WAY that stuff happens by accident

 

I got a funny phone call today from a guy with a 1922 silver dollar he sword up and down was worth $100,000. His looked much nicer than the one from pawn stars. Have you ever tried to explain special strikes and the like to someone who has no idea what they are and wont be convinced otherwise?

 

LOL ,Matt I have had 2 different people in the shop today with their "rare" 1922 Peace dollars. "It's just like the one that was on TV ,just not in a fancy holder"

I detest that show.

 

Yes, but did theirs have the U erroniously stamped as a V?

 

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Does that happen a lot normally with someone bringing coins in and insisting they are worth thousands? How many would you get in an average year?

 

This reminds me of an auction my neighbor went to back in the mid 1970s where he bought an old upright piano for $75 for his daughter to practice her lessons on. It was so out of tune he had a piano tuner come to the house to tune it. When he saw it he told him it was built in the mid-1800s and there were several dead keys due to corroded or missing strings, so my friend was expecting the worse. But when the tuner opened the back, and began fiddling with the upright brass board of strings a coin dropped and rolled across the floor. He went over and picked it up. It was an 1846 Seated Liberty Dime in VF-XF condition. Without asking me what I'd give him for it he took it to a local coin shop where he promptly sold it for $450 ... he then sold me the piano for $75 for my daughter to use for piano practice ... now my daughter has her own kids but decided to be a nurse practitioner instead of piano player. O, well ... at least maybe she'll treat me when all the doctors are gone due to obamacare.

 

That Pawn Stars episode put a HUGE black eye on coin collecting

 

Actually it doesn't happen a lot. Maybe a half dozen times a year. More when some rare coin appears on TV with little or no explanation as to what makes it rare. Usually we show them the error in their research and all is well... Occasionally we get someone who thinks we are just out to steal their super expensive coin. Those are fun.

 

What would you price this coins as and by what comparison? How does this give the hobby a black eye?

 

It would be nice to add that Proof to the 2 coins above that I already own, but it is just too expensive! INFO: the 1922 is a LOW RELIEF TRIAL STRIKE, almost identical in the Hub Designs that were used on the "Early Hub Dies" examples that were sold at the Auugust ANA Chicago Show by Stacks-Bowers.

 

Is this a J-2020? I thought I had images of all of the known pieces, and this isn't one of them. How long has it been in your holdings?