All the talk about 1921 Peace Dollars

That's from Skyman's photo, not mine .

 

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What is your closeup supposed to suggest, Morgan?

 

I will fix that, and it will be obvious. Look at the picture again.

 

I'm not sure what you're trying to show me?

 

I'm not seeing evidence of altered surfaces on the excerpted image.

 

I've got like three at PCGS right now but my nicest and I need to get photos was one that I bought on an old green label pci holder ms63. It is now in a ngc ms63 holder with a green bean.

 

I sold most of my better ones when the prices went crazy last year. I did keep this VAM 1A with original skin.

 

Difficult date/series to interpret w/o coin in hand imo. You really need a lot of overlapping resources/photos to come close to judging in-hand characteristics.

 

The fields are absolutely smooth, while the hair, and other high spots show wear, although light wear, along with contact marks. It was polished. It is an AU details coin.

 

I have this graded as AU-58. I believe the area you see as polished is a light anomaly from how I take my pictures. Here's a certified 1923 that shows the same type of anomaly, just in different areas....

 

Nope. Here are the two photos. The AU 58 coin shows contact marks in the left hand fields, and some graininess. Yours does not. You have a nice coin there, but it has been polished to try to look MS. This is common in raw Peace Dollars, and even almost expected.

AU 58:


Yours—AU details

 

That's a beauty!

 

Never find a coin like that in a 62 slab today. They were probably all broken out and resubmitted in the likely hope of getting a higher grade.

A few years ago I started looking for a nice '21 Peace online to buy. I was probably looking at MS-64's. However, every one I encountered had some major flaw: like a scratch running completely across the whole cheek or something.

 

Are we talking about the coin shown in post# 20? I see light scattered contact marks and an overall dull surface across the entire coin.

 

Nice coin!

 

I sold my MS63 last year. Just couldn’t pass up what it would sell for.

But here is my NGC XF45:

 

Thanks. For a 62, it shows mighty nicely. I think it would grade higher today, as opposed to OGH holder days, when it was graded.

 

Nobody’s messed with this dame’s skin….