I do not have a problem

so I’ve seen! I think Peace Dollars started in 1921 and have both high and low relief for those years (for a certain mint?)
For now I’ll probably buy the higher quality loose coins to encapsulate until I get my first set. Then I’ll start buying a set that are graded

 

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The first year of issue was 1921 but they were all high relief. In 1922 it was changed to low relief as they had problems in minting. Both and and low are dated 1922 but the high is the expensive one.

 

Ah, thank you for the correction, I thought the low relief was more valuable/expensive as it had just over a million minted that year?

 

No problem and the 1921 is a low mintage coin. The mint had minting problems due to the high design. That’s why the design was lowered. It’s called a normal relief.

 

Before 1964 that 1883 CC would have been considered a scarce/rare coin. All of the CC issues were considered scarce and rare in high grades. Then in 1964 after they cut off exchanging silver dollars for silver certificates and inventoried what was left in the Treaury vaults they found they had a significant portion of the mintage of many of the CC dollars, all uncirculated. Such as about 3/4's of the entire mintage of the 1884 CC. So today most of the CC's are considerably more common in Unc than in the circulated grades.