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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;messydesk, post: 7007179, member: 1765&quot;]The 1921 &quot;Zerbe&quot; coins are no longer believed to have been special strikes.&nbsp; They were specially selected business strikes.&nbsp; As such, a mintage number doesn&#039;t really mean anything.&nbsp; Be that as it may, they are special looking coins, since one doesn&#039;t normally see 1921s this way.&nbsp; The die pair for the Zerbe coins is <a href="http://ec2-13-58-222-16.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wiki/1921-P_VAM-1AG" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ec2-13-58-222-16.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wiki/1921-P_VAM-1AG" rel="nofollow">VAM 1AG</a>, and the die markers are documented there.&nbsp; It is a D1 (17 berry) reverse.&nbsp; I would not trust Breen&#039;s description of these.&nbsp; The die markers for the Chapman proofs are not as thoroughly documented on VAMWorld, but it is believed that the obverse of VAM 3BV was used with a different D1 reverse for them.&nbsp; Curiously, the population of Chapman proofs is much higher than the supposed mintage.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only coins that are special strikings for Zerbe are the 1921-S Zerbe coins.&nbsp; It was this issue about which Zerbe was disappointed not to have received Peace dollars.&nbsp; Die markers aren&#039;t documented on VAMWorld for this one. The coin that Heritage sold in January does not have photos sufficient for seeing these markers.&nbsp; Going in the opposite direction would be possible, however.&nbsp; There are some markers visible on the obverse that could be matched to another coin that may be attributable.&nbsp; The VAM 17 obverse may have been used, but I have not been able to corroborate this, and there are likely several 1921-S obverse dies that match the description of VAM 17.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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