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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jeff, post: 4432, member: 585&quot;]Greetings,</p><p><br /></p><p>I recently looked at an interesting 1922 Peace dollar and was hoping to gain some insight. My first thought was that it might be a high relief circulated proof or ....???...due to its unusual depth of detail. Of course it could just be a very well struck coin -but even then, I&#039;ve not seen one with such pronounced -raised lines in the hair, the tiara and rays. But in looking it over with x10 -I landed on the hair band or tiara as it is often referred to and it shows two very distinct raised lines at top and bottom of the band -that&#039;s the first time I&#039;ve seen such distinction. I then noticed that ALL of the raised lines, including the rays etc are relatively pronounced with the exception of the letter T which appeared to be rather flat??</p><p><br /></p><p>Granted, this is a toned coin, or dirty since the toning or dark areas are only in the recessed regions of the coin -while the devices are bright -giving it a really pronouned appearance.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t collect toned or dirty coins -but the darkened areas were really quite deep and made the clean devices jump out of the fields.</p><p><br /></p><p>I want to go back and look at it again -but would like to know what the heck I&#039;m looking at....a high relief or very well struck coin. It does appear to have some wear but likely in the AU condition...any one know anything about 1922 high reliefs ?</p><p><br /></p><p>thanks[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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