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Colorful Peace Dollars...... let's see them!

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EVillageProwler

EVillageProwler

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One of the board members collect toned Peace Dollars, and has acquired a nice set of 'em. In general, however, I rarely see vibrantly toned specimens of this series. You will need to be very patient...

 

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Coinosaurus

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Isn't it wierd that toned Morgans are a dime a dozen and toned Peace dollars are hardly ever seen? It's not like the alloy changed or anything. Could it be that some Morgans might not be, well, totally virgin for a lack of a better word????

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bigd5

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Cool coin Bustman! I'm not big into Peace dollars (the series drives my grading skills absolutely batty!) but I have a cool au example.

First I have to find it, and then I have to mess with the image to get it posted here. I have 50/50 results posting images on this board.

I did see a couple cuties in a dealers case last weekend. Not as nice as your coin, but cute nonetheless.

 

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airplanenut

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Isn't it wierd that toned Morgans are a dime a dozen and toned Peace dollars are hardly ever seen? It's not like the alloy changed or anything. Could it be that some Morgans might not be, well, totally virgin for a lack of a better word????
There are a couple of things to remember:

1- Peace dollars weren't stored like morgans- lots of morgans have bag toning from being in mint vaults for years.

 

2- I believe one series was rinsed, the other not... the rinsing caused a difference

 

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ArtR

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Isn't it wierd that toned Morgans are a dime a dozen and toned Peace dollars are hardly ever seen? It's not like the alloy changed or anything. Could it be that some Morgans might not be, well, totally virgin for a lack of a better word????

 

As airplanenut posted the short time frame being stored in Mint Bags could be one factor.

 

Miller in his Book also refers to the acid bath used to remove oxidation from the planchets was more highly concentrated than the bath used on Morgan Dollars.

 

The acid bath makes the most sense to me, as even Peace Dollars that were kept in rolls for many years normally did not aquire the vivid tone that there Morgan counterparts did. I attached the reverse of a 22-D Peace Dollar that I use as my icon.

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MarkFeld

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While this coin doesn't hold a (colored) candle to Bustman's, here is a somewhat colorful NGC MS66 1923-D:

 

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Edited to add: I see that many / most posters here use attachments, rather than posting images to the threads - am I guilty of poor forum etiquette in posting images as I do?

 

 

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MarkFeld

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Bustman, my comment / question was not directed at you, any more than it was anyone else. I seem to be in a rather small minority here, in posting images, rather than attachments to threads.

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TomB

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I think people generally post images as attachments because it is easier. In order to post an image within a response, the image has to have a URL. So, an attachment, which can be loaded from your computer, is easier to do.

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