IT has been a while since I bought my 1921 Walker in PCGS MS-66. Later on, it received a CAC sticker
oreville
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I bought this coin back in 1997. One of my favorites! I still have it safe and sound.
The luster is amazing for an early walker. Jack Lee was known for his silver dollar collection but his walker collection was also second to none.
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Pretty darn incredible, I can easily understand your reasoning here.
Nice Walker. Gorgeous.
Jim
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Just proves how terrible my photo taking was and still is!
That’s a wowser coin !
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I don’t love money . I do love the Lord God.
Wow! a gem of a gem.
Superb in every way!
That is a really nice one!
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Jack Lee had some great coins and that is one of them. His 14 D Cent was a moose.
That looks like a beauty!
Wow! Doesn't need to be a great photo to see that coin is amazing!
I love all coins dated 21 but that one is special
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That's just an awesome coin @oreville
As long as I can remember, you always have had a great eye for stunners. So did Jack.
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WOW!!
A beauty!
Wonderful! Love it!
I don't think I ever had a 'special' '21.
That's beautiful !
That is a really impressive 1921 Walker....That deserves a TruView though... Cheers, RickO
Wondered where that coin went!
What a treasure!
Did you buy it directly from Jay Parrino? I think he handled most of Jack’s walkers and peace dollars.
Safe and sound!
The Jack Lee provenance is one of a handful that carry some significance for me. Great Walker.
That coin looks hammered! Reverse pic? Betting that all the leg feathers show on the eagle too.
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Now that's a coin worth having! Wow!
Excellent ROI on that one.
Very nice coin!
1921 is a fascinating year for US coinage, with the low mintages tied to the severe post war recession, but with the economy poised to take off.
I've at times toyed with the idea of completing a 1921 half dollar set, with seven coins: the three difficult walkers, plus the Alabama and Missouri, each of which has two varieties.
Before I saw your pic, I thought OK, the proof is in the pudding. Then I looked.
When I saw the coin AND Jack Lee's name all my doubts just melted away. His stuff was the best of the best!
Pete
Agree with the recession issue, but in all fairness to the three mints, they were busy coining a LOT of Morgan dollars that year.
Awesome coin!
Thanks for the awesome give away.
That coin only gets better and BETTER.
A keeper and a beauty!!
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My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):
https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/
Truly an amazing coin!!
I think you might have showed me this coin at Parsippany one time just to show me what an early date Walker ought to look like in MS66! My 1918 paled in comparison. Glad to see you posting more and within two months of April 15 no less!
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Talking about a luster bomb, that's the definition.
I just love it when one obtains a trifecta:
tremendous eye appeal
Top grade or thereabouts
holder/pedigree
Great coin Oreville but you didn't need me to tell you that. I was outbid for the G B W speciman ( 66 CAC). Still have a little regret. I like your coin better
Happy 100th Birthday coin!
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@Walkerguy21D said "Agree with the recession issue, but in all fairness to the three mints, they were busy coining a LOT of Morgan dollars that year."
Interesting point. I looked up the numbers, and the mints made more Morgans in 1921 than all other coins combined!
Wow, beauty. I Can see that in your all the way from the moon pic!
The strike and luster look more like a 42p or 43p.
REALLY Awesome walker.
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Answer:
Yes.
i personally studied Parrino/Lee 1921, 1921-D, and 1921-S walkers all in the same grade PCGS MS-66 and thought the 1921 was the clear finest of the three.
i was astounded on how Jay Parrino was able to assemble such a incredible inventory of coins back in the 1995 to 1997 era and while he was expensive, the quality of his coins were amazing which made the purchase worthwhile.
Yes, your memory is correct. But your 1918 in PCGS MS-66 was no slouch either. i liked it very much too.
It is a very tough date as well.
Thank you, sir.
Yes, I still have some of his multi page ads from that era, because of the early large cents and walkers he was offering. I recall seeing some of these in person at the ‘96 ANA. Truly amazing to see so many finest-known coins in multiple series in one person’s inventory.
The strike on that coin appears to be amazing, not to mention the luster.
II just realized thanks to Justacommeman's reminder that this year is the 100th birthday of the 1921 Walker!!
Nice coin, Oreville!
Who posted the picture for you??
Lakesammman
I finally re-learned how to post the picture myself!!!
The picture has been sitting in my registry set which interestingly was never deleted but was deleted in the message board.
I've not seen your registry set. Is it here at PCGS? Can you give a link or a name please. Thanks.
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My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):
https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/
Just look up Oreville. Same name as my user name. I only posted about 1/3 of my collection into the registry set for recordkeeping purposes.
My comment to that:
Cart before the horse.
Since there was no demand for the USMint to mint any coins for commerce, the Mint Director tried to keep the Mints busy by minting silver dollars in 1921 which would return serious funds to the US Treasury.
This is the area of disagreement I had with Roger Burdette.
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The Pittman Act of April 23, 1918 was the government act, which authorized the conversion of not exceeding 350,000,000 standard silver dollars into bullion and its sale or use for subsidiary silver coinage, and directed purchase of domestic silver for recoinage of the same number of dollars. This is the reason for the slim, 'token' amount of lower denomination coins being minted in the years surrounding 1921. The mint was focusing primarily on silver dollars of that year.
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My Full Walker Registry Set (1916-1947):
https://www.ngccoin.com/registry/competitive-sets/16292/
s> @Walkerfan said:
my response:
i am aware of that and the silver was on hand in 1920, possibly even in 1919, to mint the silver dollars but the timing was wrong to mint the silver dollars. There was still too much demand for the fractional coins but when the demand collapsed in 1921, the Mint Director sprung into action by finalizing the dies for the silver dollar.
You stated that the reason for the small mintages of fractional coins was because the US Mint concentrated on silver dollars. I believe in the opposite causality; the US Mint had little reason to mint minor coins so they decided to concentrate on the silver dollars when it made sense to do so. Not in 1918, 1919 or in 1920.
Look to our neighbor to the north for backing up my assertion. Canada suffered the the same exact short depression in 1921 and despite having the rarest of silver dollars in their history, they still had too little demand for fractional coinage to mint them and as a result created among their rarest of fractional coins in their history as well, all in the same 1921 year.
Perhaps this added discussion should be in a separate thread?