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I love all the no-motto seated coins. Very nice, classy pieces.

Kind of a pretty little thing. In a no-line fatty:

Pretty Frankie, and very nice bell lines. A little choppy, but the other attributes make up for it just fine.

Nice double dime. These are harder to find with anything approaching original skin than people realize.

I was fortunate enough to pick this up from Tom Bush a few days ago. It was posted ATS, but it's pretty enough to share here too.

I love that 1888 $3. Very nice look & sharply struck.

I picked up this one in the CS auction. Ex Dukor:

Thanks for the kind works everyone.

I got this one:

trying to match this one, which Mark Feld found for me a few years ago.

It would almost be fun to put them in a dual holder........ Almost.

Arrived today from David Kahn:

Love that seated half.

I was fortunate enough to pick this one up at auction during the Summer ANA. The funny little Small Eagles are really growing on me.

Why can't new designs happen like this today? With all of our fancy computer design and CNC machining it takes months or even years for a coin to go from concept to completion. There are a hundred opportunities for all the artistry to be beaten completely out of the finished product.

The commission of Fine Arts in the 1920s were correct to have the sculptor so intensely involved in the process. From your book they seemed to grasp the importance of preserving the artistry.

It's a magnificent coin, even with its warts and bruises. Personally, I think all those little problems are part of the allure of this classic masterpiece.

Good stuff!

It's virtually incomprehensible to me that this coin went from design contest to multiple iterations of early dies & designs in a period of just several days. Throw in a million 1921 production pieces and the creation of a few proofs & trials..... it's no wonder there is some confusion about the "leftovers" from this process. All of this was more or less wrapped up in time to create some 84 million 1922 dollars - the highest total for any year of silver dollar production.

Roger,

In both the 1st & 2nd editions of your Peace Dollar Guidebook, you state that there is only 1 example known, found in circulation, listed as Judd-2020. This coin was apparently authenticated by NGC in 2001.

Have 2 more been discovered? Do any high-quality photos exist? I'd love to see what you mean by the die defect above the olive branch. The portrait of the medium-relief coin shown on page 170 of the 2nd edition of your book seems "different", especially around the nose and brow.

As far as the coin on eBay, I think we all can agree that it's probably just a 1922-D with a bit of die rotation in a mislabeled holder.

- BryceM

Got this one from the recent Heritage Long Beach auction. It got the thumbs-up from the great Feldini. Every once in a great while one of my bids stands up.