Need some help with this 1922 Peace dollar.

With my limited knowledge of coins at this point, I think I've uncovered a valuable coin in my collection and would like to receive some feedback from you guys that are more knowledgeable about this than I am.

By all the research I can do, this appears to be a 1922-S proof low relief satin Peace dollar.  I'm having a hard time researching the coin, because I can find no pictures of a S mint mark for this coin anywhere, although I know they were minted with the S mark.  I don't know if you can clearly see it from the picture of the obverse here, but there is a tiny S engraved at the base of the tail of the eagle.  I'm not blind, and I've viewed it under 7x magnification and had two other people view it with the same glasses and we all agree it looks like an S, I just don't know if this is a normal S mark for this coin because I can't find an example of a specimen. I have no idea what the S on this coin is supposed to look like, so I don't know if this S is the real mark or just an anomaly that occured from it being toted around in somebody's pocket.  What do you guys think?

Sorry for the huge picture size on the obverse, but it was too difficult to make out at a lower resolution.



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1922 S peace dollar. Found it in my coin book. 17,475,000 were minted. In VF20 condition, it is worth $10. But take it to a coin shop to get it evaluated.


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Also, from your photo, the mint mark is in the correct location. The mint mark on those coins was on the reverse side below the word ONE.

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Thanks for the feedback guys.  I've never had much of a coin collecting appetite, but after getting involved in metal detecting and finding the coin areas on this and other sites, I got a bit of a fever.  I went through two and a half gallons of pennies that I've been tossing in a pickle jar for my entire adult life, and found two obvious 1998 WAMs and what I suspect to be a 1992 CAM.  I'm scared to have the 92 evaluated because the answer is going to kill me either way.

This 1922 was in an envelope with my name on it in my handwriting that was passed to me by my brother after my grandmother passed away last year.  He found the envelope when he was cleaning out her effects.  It was full of coins that I had collected when I was a kid and she had been entrusted with it when I went off to college.  I had completely forgotten about that envelope until he brought it to me. Most of the loose coins, a couple of hundred dollars face value, are 1963 nickles, dimes and quarters that had been given to me by my grandparents because it represented the year of my birth.  I was always admonished not to spend those coins because they were special. I haven't taken the time to research each of these coins, but I've got one really strange looking '63 dime that's gonna need some research.  It looks so much like a modern dime that it's rediculous. It doesn't have the silver patina at all, and stands out in the pile like a sore thumb due to it's zinc shine.

This particular 1922 peace dollar was  wrapped in an idex card with my dad's handwriting on it saying "gift from Mrs. so and so,  10-1970", which would have made me 7 years old when she gave it to me.  I never had a clue what it was until I drug that old envelope out of storage and started digging through these old coins to see what I have.  I have probably 50 coins that are stapled inside index cards marked like "first silver gift from grandpa so and so, 1967", Coins found by (me) in Gasser house during our move in , bufallo nickle, mercury dime", 1971-D uncirculated from (my grandfather), 12/25/71", on and on and on.  Evidently my elders were more interested in collecting coins for me than I was at the time... but now I'm getting interested .  I think my favorite one so far, or at least the one I've got the biggest laugh out of, is the one marked "Silver dollar from Las Vegas Slot Machine Mom & Dad's trip Dec. '78".  I've never opened that coin wrapper, but researching on a '78 dollar uncovered that the casinos in Vegas used them as tokens for slot machines at the time because the were cheaper than producing their own tokens.  LOL... a dollar that isn't even worth a dollar.

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	The mint mark is in the right place. But why do you think is a proof according to one of my books they claim only 12 true proof were made that year??? A true proof is stamped twice. Let me find my copy of the coin collectors bible and do a little reading will let you know.

I don't know that it is a proof seldom.  All I know is that I can't find enough information about it to think otherwise.  I can't find any information other than that the proof coins had the S mark.  I can't find any information indicating that that there were non proof coins that had the S mark.  The S is very sharp and appears to be double stamped... raised much above the coin like a high relief stamp would be.  I just don't know, I'm only trying to figure it out.  If I was an expert at this I wouldn't be asking you guys for advice.

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My book says only 12 proofs made in 1922 peace dollar. I have never heard of so few, going to do a little more research on this. I don't think it's a proof maybe a UC.

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Some of them coins can stump you and I suggest the experts. Here is a link to the only place I believe about coins on the net. But please update us when you learn something.

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