Hello People, I Purchased This 1922-P ANACS MS64 Peace Dollar..ERROR?????

Hello People, I Purchased This 1922-P ANACS MS64 Peace Dollar and I could use some info on it as it doesn't look like a normal one to me.. it almost looks like a DDO profile but I am still apprehensive to call it anything with out the brains of the coin bunch confirming it as such.. I cant seem to match it to a VAM and the oddest thing to me is whoever had this graded back when received a MS64 with no error attributes and I'm wondering if it is a sort of error or verity why wouldn't it be given a label by ANACS? Thank you all in advance and I am always looking to learn so any help is appreciated! This is a link to a photo album with a good amount of pic from different angels here http://photobucket.com/ggddkksiiey888s6s7sss0s44s7xbbww6 Also the profile on this VAM http://www.vamworld.com/1922-P+VAM-31 looks very similar so what is the difference between this images profile and the coin I have?

 

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all I can see in the photos looks like what we call mechanical doubling {MD}

 

Also the profile on this VAM http://www.vamworld.com/1922-P+VAM-31 looks very similar so what is the difference between this images profile and the coin I have?

 

because this coin looks like a real doubled die coin and your coin appears to have one of the many types of doubling that doesn't add any extra value to the coin. if you don't know very much about doubled die coins then it is hard to explain this. what looks like doubling on MD coins is usually flat and shelf looking while on a coin from a doubled die the doubling is more round looking. just hang in there and keep learning and before long you will be able to spot the difference between a coin struck with a real doubled die and the worthless forms of doubling. If your dollar coin had been a real doubled die ANACS would have listed it on the label.

 

I thought ANACS only attributed errors/varieties for an additional fee?

 

I agree with Rascal's assessment. Most likely a previous owner thought it was a DDO and sent it in ( with the additional fee) and it came back with no DDO on the label as it was Mechanical doubling.

Nocomment, welcome to the forum!! A true doubled die is when a coin is struck normally by a "working" die that was itself doubled in its manufacture. When the "working die is made, it was pressed in stages ( usually twice) so proper cooling and strengthening would occur. If this die was not repressed EXACTLY, then a doubled image on the whole die or part of the die could occur. If this doubled working die struck coins in a normal way, then they are Doubled Die Coins.

If a normal "working die" strikes a coin, but the die ( usually) or the coin moves as the strike finishes, it is Mechanical doubling, strike doubling, MDD ( mechanical doubling damage, and other terms, and isn't an error/variety, just a mis-adjustment in the machinery. I simplified it a little

Jim

 

Good to know and thank you all for the help!

Good to know and thank you all for the help!