GTG 1921 Peace Dollar

I usually don't play the "guess the grade" game, but the results from this one might be interesting.

 

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Looks pretty gemmy.
But I have one I've submitted twice, it comes back lower than I think it should....
Edit: I did vote 65.

 

I think the hits holds this key date to MS64.
Another date would get a 63.
Very nice coin.

 

Yes, MS64 or 64+ sounds right.
That' a real beauty.

 

65

 

This is a beautiful looking, well struck 1921 Peace $. It has lovely toning & the reverse shows an unusual amount of detail for an issue that is usually weakly struck. I would grade it MS64+.

 

I don't have any experience grading Peace dollars but guess AU58, mainly due to the flatness of the hair over the ear.

 

It has the look of a 64 but I went 63 due to the number of small nicks on both sides.

 

I went MS64 only because it appears to be an older gen. holder. MS65 would not shock me however..

 

Gem luster, very clean, a couple distracting marks, old holder. I’d guess MS-64 and would guess that it would likely upgrade to MS-65

 

AU58, High Relief. Wear on the high cheek area and hair that's over the ear. Also, that gouge on the neck.

 

The coin has incomplete strike which is design related. I see no friction at all in the fields so the coin is mint state. The coin says gem to me and the cheek and fields are very clean. The impairment on the neck is the only real problem that could limit the grade to MS64, that in combination with the reed marks on the Eagles neck and other minor imperfections.

@TypeCoin971793 & @Dave Waterstraat mentioned that the coin is probably graded MS64 because it is in an older holder. I'm going with the alternate scenario. It is still in an older holder because it was already graded MS65. The financial gain from MS64 to MS65 is simply too high for nobody to have tried to upgrade this coin after all these years. The only way an MS64 could have survived in an older holder is if it resided in an old timer collection, so here is hoping this isn't from @johnmilton personal collection.

I say MS65.

 

MS63 with gouge on neck, and mark near chin. IMHO still just depends on the state of mind of the grader that day!

 

63 ...the fields look remarkably clean but the neck hit and the hit within the hair could have limited the grade...the older holder also influenced me to vote a point lower vs if it was a newer generation (it is possible to find maxed out/overgraded coins in old holders, but I didn’t think this was one of those).

 

I collect foreign & ancients so not a Peace $ expert. Yes a few marks on the Lib but the fields are so clean is why I gave it a 65 guess. I didn't bother to check HA tho I dimly recall trying to buy some nice inexpensive Peace dollars online and couldn't get anything which hadn't been run over by a Mark-I tank till I got to 65 grades.

 

Thats a typical striking issue caused by the hi relief of the 1921's. That's why they lowered the relief for 1922 and subsequent years.

 

This isnt my grade but I think there is a motive behind op posting this coin. I think the slab says AU58. Central weak details typical for this coin may have been confused with circulation rubs.

 

I have to say au58.

 

64. Typical strike that looks like wear. Great luster but the hits on the chin and neck too much for 65. I’d call it a 64 cac if it’s been

 

64, typical weak strike