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Why don't Peace dollars rainbow tone like morgans? For the record, aside from Walking Liberty halves, Peace dollars are probably my favorite coin. The set is obtainable and many of them have fairly low mintages therefore I think this is a sleeper series. I don't want it to "wake up" until I can get more of them though! :) |
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Canada
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I like Peace dollars, being a hefty silver coin, and the design is attractive. But, in my opinion the main weakness is that the design is too flat. |
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United States
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Good luck. Thanks, jbuck. My plan is to get two per month. I think I can fit that into my budget. I could have the set finished by the end of the year. We'll see. A decent 1928P (key date) is valued around $200 and will be last on my list... I bought a 1924P today. Edited by coinjem
04/28/2018 05:22 am
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Affordable condition is certainly a factor. But I recently saw a set in a blue Whitman folder for sale on ebay for $900 or so. |
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Thanks, jbuck. My plan is to get two per month. I think I can fit that into my budget. I could have the set finished by the end of the year. We'll see. A decent 1928P (key date) is valued around $200 and will be last on my list...  Quote:
I bought a 1924P today. Excellent!  |
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United States
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Beautiful design, on par with SG $20, Walking Liberty .50...but the general weak strikes always turned me off.
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United States
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I think I am falling in love with them. Bought this 1921 today, NGC XF45. Image is from the Heritage site, but I bought from someone else. I spent a couple hours lately online at ebay going from grade to grade. I got up to AU58 where I came to my financial senses. I am very happy to have this XF45 example.   Edited by 999fine
05/03/2018 11:37 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Quote:Why don't Peace dollars rainbow tone like morgans? Possibly due to differences in the fuels used for the melting/annealing of the metal and the change in lighting methods at the mint. The mint was moving away from charcoal/coal to gas and electric induction furnaces. and lighting was switched from gas to electric. this would result in much lower levels of sulfides in the air in the mint. |
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 to the Community, GaltsGhost! |
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United States
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Look again at her hair when it is fully struck like on page 3 with thq's post or the 1923 on 999fine's post. That hair detail is beautiful and stunning. Did I mention the hair is gorgeous? You can feel the wind blowing through that hair-do. When it is not fully struck and lacks definition it is much less appealing. That makes the hair engraving a masterpiece!
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That's a nice toner, Conner! I'm surprised Hadleydog hasn't posted his monster toner with textile toning yet.
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Quote: Why don't Peace dollars rainbow tone like morgans? From Wayne Miller's M&P$ Textbook, p. 38: Quote:"Toned Peace dollars are much more scarce than toned Morgan dollars, and very seldom show bright, vivid colorations. This is due to the following factors: First, the toning of silver dollars is usually a long-term process. Being minted much more recently, Peace dollars did not have a smuch time to interace with the sulfur in the bags in which they were stored. Second, there is some evidence that the acid bath into which planchets were plunged after annealing to remove discoloring oxidation was more highly concentrated for Peace dollars [e.g., "milk spots"], in order to maximize the frosty whiteness of the planchets. This could serve as a detriment to subsequent interaction of the silver planchet metal with sulfur or oxygen, thus retarding the toning process." Another factor may be changes in bag composition. I know from extant documents that A Piatt Andrew ordered changes to bag materials in early 1910 to reduce cost. (The bags for all coins were made in the sewing room at the various mints.) George Roberts continued Andrew's cost cutting, so it is possible that changes in materials reduced the opportunity for toning of silver coins after the first part of the 20th century. So to sum it up, I believe it's a combination of: 1- Planchet rinsing 2- Length of time stored in bags 3- Location of stored bags/harsh conditions such as humidity 4- The change in the composition of the mint bags themselves Quote:
I'm surprised Hadleydog hasn't posted his monster toner with textile toning yet.     |
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Here is a toned example that I have in my collection. Very nice! Quote:
I'm surprised Hadleydog hasn't posted his monster toner with textile toning yet. There it is!  |
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Hard to top that texile, but here is mine   |
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