1923 Peace Dollar Used As Counterfeiting Practice

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Finn235 Pillar of the Community United States 6130 Posts	Posted 11/15/2013 3:52 pm While organizing some coins in a collection I'm appraising, I noticed this coin. It looked like a 1923-S Peace dollar, but the S struck me as odd, so I put it aside for a closer look. Turns out, somebody had actually scratched a small S onto a '23-P dollar. It's quite convincing at a glance, so this was done by someone who had specialty tools and quite a bit of practice. Interestingly, the '23-S fetches a negligible premium over the '23-P. Makes me think that someone was testing their skills on a cheap coin before moving on to bigger game. Has anyone else seen anything similar? Report this Post to the Staff

1893S Pillar of the Community United States 1554 Posts	Posted 11/15/2013 4:13 pm A close up would help, kind of looks like debris or darkening of the MM from here but it is where the MM should be. Edited by 1893S 11/15/2013 4:24 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Dave H Pillar of the Community United States 1436 Posts	Posted 11/15/2013 6:17 pm . VERY difficult to tell from that picture Report this Post to the Staff
zxcccxz Pillar of the Community Canada 5417 Posts	Posted 11/15/2013 10:38 pm Better pictures would be appreciated! Report this Post to the Staff
Finn235 Pillar of the Community United States 6130 Posts	Posted 11/17/2013 7:51 pm That's about the best I can manage with my current photography setup Report this Post to the Staff
1893S Pillar of the Community United States 1554 Posts	Posted 11/17/2013 8:09 pm I'm seeing debris/gunk. Report this Post to the Staff
CoinCollector2012 Pillar of the Community United States 8137 Posts	Posted 11/17/2013 8:40 pm looks carved to me Report this Post to the Staff
CSOTUS Pillar of the Community 1153 Posts	Posted 11/18/2013 10:31 am Yeah it looks odd to me as well. As for your hypothesis, I believe you could be onto something. A 1923-P has a reported mintage of 30.8 million A 1923-S has a reported mintage of 19.02 million Report this Post to the Staff
IndianGoldEagle Bedrock of the Community United States 36826 Posts	Posted 11/18/2013 12:36 pm Looks like a genuine untampered with 23-S Peace dollar to me. Report this Post to the Staff
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