Peace dollar experts I'm not sure what to think about

this 1922 that has what looks like to me, PL surface. It doesn't look polished.
all options are welcome, it also looks to have an obverse lamination. Be brave I want to hear the good, bad and ugly.

 

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Not sure what to say. PL? Is this a joke?

 

It looks cleaned and polished to me.

 

It's harshly cleaned.

 

@Dynoking
No joke, I was asking for honest opinion.
Not only that I learned sometime today.

 

It looks like it had terminal black toneing and someone dipped and brushed it way to many times, and then gave up. IMHO.

 

@alurid
Thanks, I should have paid more attention to the rim.
Now I understand, and it will become my pocket piece .

 

It’s been cleaned and polished, unfortunately, and it is was struck with a grease filled worn die. I’m not seeing a lamination either. If you are referring to the area behind Mrs. Liberty’s head and the RT in LIBERTY, that may be a die clash. I just can’t tell from a photo.

 

It will make a nice one. Awesome rim photo shot.

 

The fields and high points have been polished and rubbed, good fill-in. All Morgans and Peace Dollars are worthy of collection no matter the grade or eye appeal. My opinion only. Thanks for sharing. Good luck.

 

@alurid
Awesome rim photo shot, thanks I use a reflector from a old flashlight, don't tell anyone

 

Really clever!

 

Yes, unfortunately it has been very harshly polished.

The reason people do this to a coin is for the very reason you fell for it - it makes it look shiny.

Definitely a cool shot with the edge, though. I've heard of that trick before (collectors of lettered edge coins love it), but I've never used it myself.

 

Yeah, that would grade harshly clean, whizzed. Can see all the scratch marks on the obverse going across.



I submit my 16-S buffalo nickel I thought that would grade MS-63 or 4 and came back AU details- Whizzed. This ones far harder to tell because it has full details and looks problem free. In this higher quality image which I took myself, you can barely make out some lines between the buffalos legs and maybe at 1 o'clock above the head on obv. The seller's pictures were nowhere near this good and I suspect they didn't know it was whizzed either.

It's really hard to tell on coins like this that have full detail. Your 22-D there has some type of dark black in the devices that someone tried their best to remove on the rest of it. You see this a lot. The worn design features and black left behind in the hard to reach areas tells you all you need to know.