Anyone with experience in Peace Dollars?

Genuine or Fake? I enlarged the areas where I am questioning...plmk what you think. If this isn't fake, this has some major die breaks:









And my major concern:







stainless

 

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I am terrible at authenticating coins so I will let someone else do that. What I will say is that the die crack is different than it is on my 1922-D Peace Dollar. The crack should cross the Y at the top not the bottom. I searched about 50 or so on Heritage and every one with die cracks looked like mine. Here are photos of my NGC MS65 1922-D Peace.




What I don't understand is this. If you were going to counterfeit a Peace Dollar, why on earth would you pick the 1922-D?

 

I don't think it is fake, the reverse rim scared me, and made me not 100% sure. But comparing it to your rim (as it is almost the same) I feel fine.

I haven't attributed it to a VAM yet. Is it possible that it could just be a die break, and not a VAM? or would all of the die breaks occur like yours?

thanks for the help so far.

stainless

 

I thought all peace and morgans were VAMS?

 

I do have small die crack noticeable in the pics on my Y,

could it be this one? http://www.vamworld.com/1922-D+VAM-1D

here is one for my big die break, http://www.vamworld.com/1922-D+VAM-1U

Vam 1A could be it too


although, neither one of the examples in the link look exactly like mine.

stainless

 

I vote real.

 

Ditto.

 

I'm with Leadfoot

I have seen a few cracked like that, They are pretty cool
Makes them much more unique than just a plain 22 Peace
Great Find:hail:

Stewart

 

It's real......

 

I vote real.

 

genuine

 

Holy freakin God, this has a doubled D!!!

Pics up in a sec.


stainless

 

it is now 8:57 PM Anthony. I thought you stated a sec?

 

I vote real fake , just kidding lol, real gets my vote also : )

 

stainless

 

Looks like those die cracks in those areas are fairly common on 22D's. One thing I noticed was the eye, it looks like a thin die gouge, which would match VAM 1F (Spiked eye). Unfortunately there are no pics on VAMworld.

Is the mark on the eye just a hit, or is it raised like a die gouge?

 

It looks very much like a genuine 1922-D VAM 2E to me.
http://www.vamworld.com/1922-D+VAM-2E

 

It has to be real. I picked up a 1922 peace dollar this weekend that looks exactly like yours. I found this forum by doing a search to see if there were any other coins like mine when I found this forum. Mine is alittle more worn that your coin, but the crack is identical! Have you found any more information about this series?

TD