Anyone heard of a 1923 S High relief Peace Dollar
Dreverett1
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I have a 1923 S Peace Dollar that shows two rays passing through the “O” in the word Dollar on the reverse. From what I’ve read only the high relief Peace dollars should show this. Anyone else seen this before? You have to expand the reverse photo to see the rays through the “O”.
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Take an image straight on. Dies from one year have been used to strike later coins. If you actually have one with two rays in the "O" that would be neat and you should connect to VAM World.
Well, it's not a high relief coin, I can tell you that.
As for the rays in the "O", can you get us a close-up photo of that area? Looks like a regular circulated Peace dollar from what I see so far.
First oval Peace Dollar !
As you can tell by the regular spacing of the sun’s rays, those rays in the O are supposed to be there. On the high relief die you heard about, they are stronger. This is s normal coin for the year.
Here’s a close up/magnified photo.
Wow! I need to go get my eyes checked! Everything close up is blurry.
I'm not sure that helps much. I was sort of hoping for a photo like this, which shows a small patch of die polish lines that can be useful when trying to identify VAMs.
I just read this somewhere today, so take it with a grain of salt. Supposedly the markers are:
On the obverse, the ray at the E extends just to the top of the bottom of the E on the high relief (left), and on the low relief, extends up to the middle of the E.
On the reverse, the ray at the N in ONE goes higher on the high relief (left bottom).
Yours appears to have neither of these high relief markers.
The reverse marker is much more exaggerated on the 1922 high relief matte proofs (extremely expensive), so I don't know if it's a reliable marker. I found nothing about the rays going through the O in DOLLAR - they all seem to have it to one extent or another. I don't know if this helps or is just wrong. I only confirmed it on a couple HA coins.
Based on the pictures, I would say it is not a high relief...Cheers, RickO
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Ignore him, he doesn't know how to grade thru tarnish.
@RogerB is OK, he's playing you about the coin being oval. It you tell him the earth is round, you will know more than you ever wanted to know this side of "The Big Bang Theory" about oblate spheroids.
if it's about grading, ignore him.
It's not about grading, so ignore me.
So listen to @ricko. He's been here over 65000 years