United States: 1922 silver Peace dollar

United States: 1922 silver Peace dollar

PCGS MS65. Cert. #1569487.

Numista-5580, Krause-Mishler-150.

Mintage: 51,737,000.

Ex-Randy Abercrombie; purchased at the 2025 FUN convention in Orlando, Florida, 10 January 2025.

This 1922 Peace dollar is housed in an older (Generation 3.1) PCGS slab, and thus was encapsulated between March 1993 and September 1998. This was one of the slab types that collectors refer to as "Old Green Holders" (or "OGH" for short), because of the green label.

While the 1922 Peace dollar is the most common date of the series with by far the largest mintage, this particular coin has such blazing luster that it caught my eye from ten feet away in a dealer's case at the 2025 FUN show. (I forgot to record the dealer's name.) My friend @Randy Abercrombie and I agreed that it had to go home with one or the other of us. Though I was the one who had spotted it first, he was the first to whip out his wallet and purchase it. He did allow me an option to buy it from him later, however, and so I did exactly that after we left the show.

The coin exhibits very light champagne-gold toning over impressive cartwheel luster. I affectionately refer to it as a "lusterbomb", and have kept it as my Peace dollar type coin. After paying John Baumgart (@messydesk) for professional photographs, I have a total of $210.00 invested in it. That's a little more than its current PCGS value as of this typing (February 2026), but I do not mind a bit. I think the coin was worth a modest premium.

I am not sure whether or not it would have upgrade potential if resubmitted to PCGS today. That's a moot point anyway, since I have no intention of removing it from the old green label holder.



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Yep. Common coin, but an uncommonly nice example. Thanks for turning loose of her.

If I ever upgrade, I’ll give you the same buyback option you gave me. (“Keep it in the family”, so to speak.)

 

It shot a beacon of light from that dealer case that beckoned me over like the Bat-signal.

Sometimes a coin purchase is deeply thought out and researched. Other times it all boils down to basic magpie instincts: “Ooh! Shiny! Me like!”

 

Wow, high praise indeed. Thanks.

 

Wow. PCGS says $170. That’s quite a spread.

I said $210, and sold.

 

I should probably CAC the thing, huh. So far I’ve resisted sending any of my stuff to CAC. I guess I’m just too cheap/lazy. I do own some CAC-beaned pieces, but those were all submitted by previous owners.

 

I’ve never really used USA Coin Book for a quick online reference, but since Numismedia has been glitchy, I might start glancing at it more.

Even though I think they’re being overly optimistic on my coin in this particular instance. Also, since when is the Peace dollar an “Early Silver Dollar” [sic]?