1922 Philadelphia Peace Dollar With "Rolled" Rim

I am not a silver dollar guy. But when you see that edge on nickels and dimes, it can be one of two things.

First and more likely, it could be a weak strike. If the clearance between the dies is too large, the planchet isn't fully compressed. The rounded protorim remains around both coin faces, and the reeding is narrow and centered. The compression of the strike just isn't enough to force metal outwards and into the rim gutter and against the collar to form a proper rim. Sometimes you can even see a ledge around both coin faces where the dies made contact, but the protorim survived.

Second, it could have been encased in a bezel. That doesn't seem likely here, but worth mentioning.

I guess a silver dollar could have also been shaved or trimmed to steal silver, but that also doesn't seem likely here.

I defer to the silver dollar guys, though, weak strike is just my immediate impression.

to CCF.

yeah, I was thinking that is was encased at some point.

https://www.error-ref.com/?s=Weak+strike

This is the thread on that weak strike nickel that I found two years ago. You can see the incompletely formed edge in the image below.

https://goccf.com/t/446777



One thing that can be telling with a weak strike is putting it side by side with a fully struck coin. The weak strikes that I have examined have the design struck less deeply into the design than a normal strike. If the design is shallow in the coin faces, and the rims are not as tall off the fields, then a weak strike is a good possibility.

Interesting.