Heritage Peace Dollar Description Question

richardshipp

I'm still very new to "Heritage Sales" so I apologize if this is a dumb question.

I clicked on THIS LOT actually by mistake thinking it was a '21. I blew up the picture and looked at the coin and saw what looks like (to me anyway) die cracks running all over the obverse and some on the reverse. However when I read the "description" it doesn't seem to mention any die cracks. Is it normal to exclude something like this from an auction description or am I seeing something that isn't actually on the coin?

Thanks in advance.
Richard

Dennis88

On coins like these Heritage won't note die cracks are other features similar to that. It's not interesting enough for most of the potential buyers.

Dennis

messydesk

The die cracks are the usual ones you see on Peace dollars, especially 22-Ds. None looked big enough for the coin to be counted as a specific VAM, and even it they were, it would likely be a low interest variety. The effort that goes into writing the description is proportional to the expected hammer price, however, so if this were a 25-S in 65, there'd be considerably more text that would include nice things said about the die cracks.