Which Is The Real 1921 Peace Dollar?

Good deal.

I'll post my findings here when all is said and done.

Also, be double-sure to pack them nice and air tight, as we've been having some uncomfortable humidity as of late from all the nasty weather.

Great post!
I hope 'B' is real.
I think it is myself, but I am not a Peace collector.

Well, I thought Las Vegas was trying to pull a fast one on us after that last round of overlaying pics. The OBV of B, as can be seen, does not line up. All I did was take the pics off of this site, make the one transparent, and overlay it. So if B cones up legit - what happened?

I am surprised at how well As OBV lines up for a fake - they are getting good


Here is a thread I posted not too long ago showing an overlay of a legit 1879 Morgan with a fake 1879 I own. The front of your A is a lot better than the results for my Morgans turned out.

https://goccf.com/t/119357&whichpage=1

Drumroll please.... :-)


The results are in, and I'm rather surprised:

- The weight is within tolerance at 26.66 grams.
- It appears to be made of silver with the proper diamagnetic reaction and resonance.
- The strike discrepancies were simply due to the angle at which the pictures were taken plus lighting differences. (I'll post examples that show how they line up in a bit.)

The only thing that I cannot resolve as mere wear is the reeding, which still looks odd.

Taking a 20% sample section of the edge reeding, one would expect 37-39 reeds (38x5=190, so 37-39 as 20% represents ~189 +/- 5 which accounts for normal variance in a sample).

On a 20% edge sample from Coin B, I counted 42 reeds, which means that this coin has (taking into account possible error from the sample) between 205 and 215 reeds total.

All Peace dollars struck are known to have 189 reeds, with no variations as are found among series like Morgans. Differently-reeded Morgans usually exhibit fewer reeds than 189 (the "wide-reeded" varieties) but there are several examples of 193-reeded Morgans (still quite less than 205).

As a counterexample, I did a 20% cross-section of several of my genuine Peace dollars (1922-1926) and came up with (as expected) 37-39 reeds from a 20% edge sample.

Unless a 1921 variety of the had a vastly different collar that I am not aware of (and I combed all over the place) my vote is that this is a very clever, very scary forgery.

However, in the end it wouldn't hurt to get a TPG's opinion on the matter.

Illustrations to be posted later tonight. :-)

Larry, I am sorry if I sounded as if I was being negative at all. I was not meaning to imply anything except that you were having a good time kidding with us so we could see if we could ferret out the right answers.

I was kind of kicking myself I had not thought of trying a post incorporating something like this myself




This is a good thing to know. I was wondering how I could have messed this up.

I was careful to make dead sure the pics did not get mixed up, but I also know I have sometimes been mixed up enough to mix anything/everything up no matter how careful I am.

Where is Spock when you need him?

BTW - speaking of messing things up. I SWORE I already entered a similar post - but it is not showing up on my screen - so if this is a double post - we will know Spock is still not here helping me at present!

Now that's some thorough investigative work

@jmkendall - Good find! That's one more potential piece in the puzzle. Does Burdette mention how many reeds it had? I could see a different shape for the reeds (pointier like it is in Coin B so less metal is pressed outwards), but all resources I could find do not mention differences in the reed count, itself.

If only 1 is real then B; if both are fake then, neither; if both are real then, A and B