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Message:: [QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 24671866, member: 101855"]Last summer, everything was on 6s and 7s for me because we were getting the house tented for termites (something that is not "if" but "when" in Florida) and then we got it re-modeled. A lot of my lesser items when into storage. This summer, I've had more of chance to look at them. I bought one of the 2021 Peace Dollars because I wanted to see how the design would look fully struck. The 1921 Peace Dollars were famous for lacking design details in one place or another, usually in the centers. Here is my current type piece, which NGC over graded a bit as an MS-65. Ms. Liberty's cheek is quite smooth, but there is a mark on the neck to takes it out of the MS-65 grade, in my opinion. [ATTACH=full]1573312[/ATTACH] And here is the 2021 piece I purchased from the mint. [ATTACH=full]1573313[/ATTACH] When I put the two coins, side by side, one of the differences I noticed right away was the rim around the 1921 was far more beveled (the area from the rim around the coin to the field) than it is on the 2021. The 2021 coin was similar to the later Peace dollars, like this 1935 dated piece. [ATTACH=full]1573314[/ATTACH] It's been my observation that when the edge is beveled, as it is on the 1921, that the strike is usually weak. The was certainly the case with most of all of the 1921 Peace Dollars. My conclusion is that the modern mint corrected the medal flow error that plagued the 1921 coins, which resulted in a sharper strike. The 2021 Peace Dollar was definitely not an exact copy of the original coin. Here's another coin that is notorious for strike issues, the 1926 Philadelphia Sesquicentennial commemorative Half Dollar. You will notice a similar area between the rim and the fields. [ATTACH=full]1573317[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]

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