Why No Love For The Peace Dollar?

While I have some Peace dollars, I never seriously was after the complete set. As has been said - flat design and poorly struck. They always just looked too flat to me.

Here is a fascinating read on how the Peace dollar design was almost something different.
http://www.moonlightmint.com/blog_19.htm

The article also tells of an amazing ebay find by Daniel Carr and how he used it to make some overstrikes of what could have been. I have one of the fantasy overstirke 1917s and have to admit it is my favorite of my Peace dollars b/c of the high relief as opposed to any original coins.
Its better in hand.

Coinjem - good idea pursuing a Peace dollar set, I think they are a nice sleeper series. If you are getting those for $20 or so it's probably not a bad deal but I would highly suggest looking for original surface coins vs ones that have been cleaned. I find those tiny scratches distracting and you can buy BU of the common years for under $30. Just a suggestion, as I think you will be happier in the long run going that route. Good luck with the set!

The same reason some prefer strawberry over chocolate - the mystery of preferences of the senses. That is about as subjective as one can get, however, there may be some that can point out objective reasons why the eye appeal is not there for the Peace dollar vs other designs.

You should go to a coin show and find dealers that will educate you. We all have cleaned coins as well as original coins. If you see a few verified examples, you'll be able to tell. On cleaned coins, the color is off, there are hairlines in the fields, the luster may be muted. Even coins that were dipped once will not tone naturally and will be recognizable as cleaned once they start to retone.

Today I freed a 1934S from an ICG AU58 slab. No way I could justify this being a 58. 55 at best, likely 53. I've been working on a mylar flip collection. While I have the easy ones in better TPG slabs, the slabs don't do much for me in grades MS 65 and lower, and for me, much lower is forcast.

So here's some pics (I hope)



In the slab


Slab cracked


Coin freed and in flip


With its new friends, LR coin

Best I can do with my phone camera and side window light

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Edit: I see I can do with much smaller images.

I freed 1921 Peace to my flip collection. Originally an NGC XF 45.










Apologies for the 2 sideways images. I have tried to rotate in my computer and repost but to no avail. Big learning curve here.

Personal opinion is that it really isn't that useful to see computer images of different coins and try and determine from them what is cleaned and what isn't won't be real helpful. Sure if a coin is OBVIOUSLY harshly cleaned your going to be able to tell, but if the cleaning is more subtle computer images may not help you at all. Especially when you consider the images are probably taken under different resolutions, with different cameras, different lighting and then viewed on a computer screen each of which in my opinion renders images and colors slightly differently. And then there is the surfaces of the coins themselves which also tend to image differently. The only way to learn cleaned from original is the same way as learning grading, but examining a very large number of coins in person. Coin shows can be good for that, but you also have to consider that the lighting at coin shows is typically very different than what you have at home. A coin that looks great at the show may not be as impressive once you get it home. So that is another skill you have to learn, how to adjust for local lighting.