I had no idea how beautiful the 2021 Peace Dollar was until I checked the U.S. Mint's Website
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I believe that is a rendering not a picture. The kind folks here taught me the difference 😉
🎶 shout shout, let it all out 🎶
Hopefully my order comes off of backorder and doesnt cancel!
IMO the Peace Dollar is one of the most beautiful coins the US has ever produced. Hopefully the product will be real close to the rendition, fingers crossed!
K
Only took 100 years to get a well struck 21 Peace Dollar.
The only thing I don’t like about Peace dollars is when the hair details aren’t fully struck. Hopefully with modern technology that won’t be an issue with the 2021s. But that’s the reason I still don’t have a high relief 1921 Peace dollar, because the hair details look even worse to me when the high relief ones aren’t fully struck and the ones that are fully struck go for moon money. They remind me of bad dreadlocks or even Medusa snake hair when they aren’t fully struck.
Mr_Spud
True - unless the new ones will also have Machine Doubling on them?
"When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"
I can't wait to get my 3 Peace dollars! What's taking so long?
Anyone that ordered only 1, will wish they got the 3 limit.
I think people selling them on ebay for $200, are selling them too cheap.
Looking at the picture in the OP, I now wish I had tried to get one of those.... Oh well, will watch the secondary market.... Cheers, RickO
I can only hope that the coin in hand comes close to the OP's posted rendition.
Wayne
Kennedys are my quest...
Love the image and can't wait for the 2021s. The mint should release a 1964, too, back-dated like the 1804s.
But I think one of the wonderful things about the coinage of the early 20th century is that the designs change but don't, in my opinion, lessen in circulated grades. There is an impressionist feel to those pieces.
I can't even imagine what a golden age that would have been. Imagine if your circulating coins were the Lincoln, buffalo nickel, mercury dime, walking liberty half, peace dollar, Indian gold fractionals and the Saint-Gaudens!
--Severian the Lame
I suspect that they will reopen sales of the peace dollar soon given how many orders might get cancelled or where the credit card can’t process at the time they charge. I might be able to get one then. Or I’ll wait until the novelty has worn off and buy one then. Just wish they were 90% silver so the look would be “right”.
I agree with your assessment of those designs, but in think the above comment is a bit of nostalgia or romanticized thinking.
Most if not all of those designs probably barely got a second look from consumers back then. They were just the current coins of that era, and there was plenty of other attractively designed stuff back then to look at. Those coins did not define that era, they were a product of it.
I marvel when I walk into a 1920s or 1930s era Post Office, for example, with all the marble and brass and wood. But, back then it was nothing particularly special.
Heck, we still have the Lincoln cent and no one gets goosebumps when they see those.
I know I am in the minority, but our current coins (not counting the quarter or dollar series) are actually quite well done when viewed in their original design format/relief.
I agree with @JBK on this one. Since it was the means of daily commerce the people of the time probably didn’t give it a second glance generally. It was just normal and expected. I think some of the designs gained appreciation over the years, too, where they weren’t considered particularly elegant in the day.
Our current coinage would do more for me if they were still in silver and bronze personally. Of course that ignores the issues regarding inflation and money policy which is not related to my aesthetic preferences.
Nice one Mike! Now that’s some serious “hair detail” we’d all like to see on our 1921 high relief’s…. ⭐️