Found a Wayte Raymond Album for Peace Dollars

FC57Coins

On Ebay - looked pretty nice...



So I got it, and since I had stopped by at the coin shop this morning I thought I'd pick a Peace dollar up to break it in - I guess I'll be working on this now It's a 23S - Not too beat up - with a little bit of nice color and luster to it

ccr

Looks like an AU53/55 and still unusual not to find an AU that isn`t gray or gold tone. Alot of AU Peace Dollars I have look good to me.

LucyBop

Crazy Daddy-o, you'll have fun, I found a Mint National album for winged libertys that I'm working on...

Also, some folks on the NGC boards were/are claiming that the Sulphur in these Albums has already been used up....

I really didn't think this was the case..... However, I consulted with several current friends of mine, whom hold Process
Engineering positions at Intel, and Various Chemistry degrees....

They also concured that there is still plenty of sulphur available for a reaction to occur with the Silver surface in the coin resulting
in toning.....

In fact this went as far as having a anaylysis done on some old cardboard from a 51 mint set I broke up....
Those cats are dead wrong and a high level of sulphur remains.......

I hope you are able to generate some nice toners in time...........

We need some pretty peace dollars.....

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Yeah - I don't think the sulphur in these albums depletes quite so fast - but we'll see.

As for the 23S Jimbo - It's not in the greatest shape - but I don't think its an AU either - somewhere in the 61-62 range. The 23S is one of the worse struck coins in the peace series, as such, the coin has less detail than normal, though I've seen worse than this one - A good number of tiny hits and dings, but looking at the coin, there's no discoloration or wear on either the brow or the eagle's wings to lead me to believe that it's a slightly circulted coin. No matter - it's still going in the album

stman

Frank, call me when they get to looking like this....

ccr

DOH!!! I`m still pretty bad at grading Peace Dollars from picture. I have a 23 - S that is " mushy " too. It`s a MS62 and after looking at it, it does have it`s fair share of hits too.

WWW

Nice find Frank. And that's a fun and relatively easy series to collect.

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Good Deal Stman - I didn't know Rust-O-leum made those colors

stman

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It wasn't in a Wayte Raymond holder if that's what you were referring to. If you're saying it isn't natural.... you're wrong.

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Nah - just yankin your chain dude - gorgeous coin!

stman

Oh, I get it now about the "Rust-O-leum" comment. HaHa yeah I get it now.