Is this the ZERBY VARIETY 1921 Morgan
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Gobrecht's Engraved Mature Head Large Cent Model
https://www.instagram.com/rexrarities/?hl=en
Zerbe, and no.
What made you think it was?
I just remember reading about it a while back. I should have googled it again before posting. I'm sorry.
No real need to say you're sorry....I think quite a few of us like to help others, but........how do you think we learned what we know?
let's respect a noted Numismatist and edit the thread title to reflect that. his name is spelled Z-e-r-b-e.
OK... so, for those of us who do not know everything... what exactly is the Zerbe variety?? Cheers, RickO
I wouldn't post to ask about a extremely scarce variety unless you checked the diagnostic markers yourself and had significant reason to believe you have said variety.
+After you have Googled the subject first before posing the question.
this forum would be even deader if people did some research before posting.
Between gtg cac grade disputes coin show reports & related crimes. & more there's plenty to talk about here...
This forum is hardly ever dead. You want dead? Check the NGC forum!
Actually DON'T. If even three of us decide to check it out they will double the action over there. LOL.
This one is much more user friendly!
I think they mean one of a group of "Proof" 1921 Morgan Dollars that Ferron Zerbe peddled back in the day as something special. I'll admit that have I never paid much attention to them since some people think that they are no more than first strikes, and others think they have some sort of specimen status. I don't know if the major grading services recognize them or not.
Zerbe supposedly had an in at the mint and requested proofs to be made.
He had intended them to be the 'new' Peace dollars, but they made the Morgans instead.
He sold them at a nice profit [for the time]
For more info:
http://coinweek.com/education/coin-grading/origins-of-the-1921-zerbe-proof-morgan-silver-dollars-are-uncertain/
BHNC #203
How right you are!
Additional information about Zerbe coins from a VAM perspective can be found on VAMworld at:
http://www.vamworld.com/1921+P+Zerbe+“Proof”+Dies
Your coin appears to be VAM 46.
RE: "Zerbe supposedly had an in at the mint and requested proofs to be made.
He had intended them to be the 'new' Peace dollars, but they made the Morgans instead."
Complete bologna. Treasury Dept (and Mint) are on record as not trusting Zerbe at least as early as 1915, and his reputation was poor prior to that.