1926 "Toned" Peace $1
LeeG
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Looking for opinions on this Peace $1. Sellers photo's, coin on it's way to me. 50/50 shot with the TPG's? I thought worth the risk. Looks 64 shot 65. I'll post In Hand photo's when the coin is received. Thanks, Lee
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First impression on this one.................. AT
Hope I'm wrong.
Herb
al h.
Here's my reasoning:
1. Attractively toned Peace $'s are unusual for any date and grade.
2. For those that I have seen, I've never seen one toned like this.
3. Colors just don't look right for NT, imho.
That said, I could be wrong. It is a nice looking coin, though. Let us know if you sumbmit it.
As far as grade, it's very tough to say since so much of the grade is lustre on Peace $'s. The reeding marks in the obverse field and tick on Liberty's chin keep it at 64 tops.
I would say it has a shot at slabbing -- 63/64. It might take more than 1 submission though.
TPN
Camelot
Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."
Although, it looks exactly like your sig line pics - was the Washington from the same seller? If so, are the colors accurate?
Either way I like it.
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etexmike
Cameron Kiefer
<< <i>My guess is that the seller's color is off in the picture - I'll bet that the coin was sitting on a white background, not purple. So if the background color is off, so is the color on the coin. Probably not near as golden as the photo indicates.
Although, it looks exactly like your sig line pics - was the Washington from the same seller? If so, are the colors accurate? >>
There is a seller, dbcoinex, that uses a similar background and format.
Apropos of the coin posse/aka caca: "The longer he spoke of his honor, the tighter I held to my purse."
FrederickCoinClub
By the way --- goodluck to the Patriots. This is a hard game for me to watch. I hate the Eagles, cause I'm a Giants fan. And my wife's ex-boyfriend is NE's tightend. I'd hate to see him have a great game.
Oh well, I gotta go with the Patriots. I'd be nice to see the Beagles lose this game after not getting there for the past 3 years!!!
TPN
<< <i>My suspicion is AT. This might sound like a copout, but I don't think you are apt to see naturally toned 1926 Peace Dollars (or other dates for that matter) with that type of color. >>
As I type this I'm holding a 1923 PCGS MS65 Peace dollar with colors very similar to the 1926 - mine has a different "look" (the location of the colors) - on the Obv, the blues are in the upper left quadrent and the copper color in the other 3 quadrents - I've seen several others in both NGC and PCGS slabs with similar colors - Peace dollars tend to toned much different than Morgans - some are quite "weird" looking - but my educated "guess" is that coin would grade at PCGS & NGC. - then again, I had a dealer tell me at FUN that during the initial distribution of the Continental Bank Hoard he had personally removed toned Morgans from the mint bags and years later when he sent those coins in for grading, many were not graded. The reason given was: "Questionable toning". He also commented that some of the coins that he removed were so unusually toned that if he had not personally removed them from the mint bag, he would have sworn they were AT.
As for the 26 Peace toned dollar - the splotchy toning that seems to float on that coin seems to have the same look as several slabbed Peace dollars that I own - that said, images can be deceiving - I've seen images that I would say are NT, but the Coin in hand is AT, and conversely an image that looks like AT, but in hand is unquestionally NT. THe bottom line is that in many cases - you simply have to hold the coin in hand to be able to make an intelligent call as to the AT/NT question - the best we can do from an image is make an "educated" guess. In that regard, Mark's guess is probably as good as mine ( or mine's no better than his) - but both are "guesses".
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Newmismatist
<< <i>Coinhusker --- Hmmm.... I think I already said my .02 cents about this toned $!!!
By the way --- goodluck to the Patriots. This is a hard game for me to watch. I hate the Eagles, cause I'm a Giants fan. And my wife's ex-boyfriend is NE's tightend. I'd hate to see him have a great game.
Oh well, I gotta go with the Patriots. I'd be nice to see the Beagles lose this game after not getting there for the past 3 years!!!
TPN >>
Heh heh, missed your post -- read thru the thread too fast!!
Well, you must be doing something right if your wife is with you, and not with a TE who has won 2, possibly 3 Superbowls!
My guess is going to be AT - based mostly on the fact that I've yet to see a Peace Dollar look that way. The dark area on the reverse neat the sun's rays look very real, but the multi coloring around the top is something ive never seen. Almost without exception, every peace dollar I've seen get a rainbow of different colors, does so in a speckled fashion, like the NGC MS62 posted above.
AT NT aside, your 26 sure is a nice looking coin - and again, AT or not, you're not likely to see one that looks like that anytime in the near future.
Now if im completely wrong, and it somehow did grade - I'd call it a 63 or 4.
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