Q. David Bowers
1922-S Br. Unc. $1.35.
1923 Unc. Very scarce. $6.25.
1923-S Br. Unc. $2.50.
1924 Br. Unc. Very scarce. $2.10.
1924-S Unc., with brilliant mint lustre. Scarce. $4.80.
1925 Unc., with frosty mint surface. Very slight cabinet friction. Quite scarce and in demand. $6.25.
1925-S Br. Unc. Very scarce. $1.75.
1926 Unc., with frosty mint surface. Very scarce. $4.65.
1926-S Unc., with brilliant mint lustre. Scarce. Listed at $7.50. $5.25.
1927 Br. Unc.Just as perfect as the day it was minted. Very scarce. Listed at $5.00 and retails for more. $4.85.
1927-S Br. Unc.Just as rare as last. $6.75.
1928 Br. Unc. $3.15.
1928-S Unc., brilliant mint lustre. $2.50.
1934 (No dollars coined from 1929 to 1933 inclusive.) Bright Unc. $1.60.
1934-S Br. Unc. $2.50.
1935 Unc., with frosty mint surface. Perfect. Last year of the dollars. $2.10.
1935-S Br. Unc. $2.25.
In November 1941 in The Numismatist, the Hollinbeck Stamp & Coin Stores, by then located in Des Moines and Omaha (apparently, the Minneapolis branch had been discontinued), offered these Peace dollars.
1923-D Unc. $1.50.
1926 The scarcest Peace dollar. Unc. $4.50.
1926-S Unc. $2.50.
Around the same time 1926-S Peace dollars were released in quantity, and Norman Shultz, for one, offered Uncirculated examples at $1.50 each. Shultz, a dealer doing business in Salt Lake City, Utah, had been active in numismatics for over 20 years by that time and would continue his dealership through the 1980s, by which time he was the longest-lived person in the trade. Shultz specialized in silver dollars, and over the years handled large quantities of them. His advertisements ran regularly in The Numismatist, The Numismatic Scrapbook Magazine, and elsewhere.
The December 1941 issue of The Numismatist carried an advertisement by the Franklin Coin Mart offering the following Peace dollars.
1921 Unc. $1.50.
1922 Unc. $1.50.
1922-S Unc. $1.50.
1923-S Unc. $1.50.
1926-D Unc. $1.50.
1926-S Unc. $1.50.
1927 Unc. $1.50.
1927-D Unc. $1.50.
1928 Unc. $1.50.
1935-S Unc. $1.50.
In the January 1942 issue of The Numismatist, the Tatham Stamp & Coin Company, Springfield, Mas-sachusetts, offered the following Peace dollars.
Tatham was very active from the 1930s through the 1950s and maintained tremendous stocks of lower-value coins, including Morgan and Peace dollars. While sales were maintained to advanced nu-mismatists through advertisements in periodicals, most of the firm's trade was done with children and beginning collectors by means of approval and bar-gain packets. Tatham helped bring many people into the coin hobby.
The 1926-S at $3.75 in Fine grade was overpriced, but Tatham moved sluggishly in response to new hoards.
1921 Unc. $1.50.
1922 Unc. $1.75.
1922-D Unc. $2.90.
1922-S Unc. $2.00.
1923-D Unc. $2.25.
1923-S Unc. $2.25.
1924 Unc. $3.00.
1926 Unc. $3.50.
1926-D Unc. $2.50.
1926-S Fine $3.75
1927 Unc. $3.25.
1927-D Unc. $2.00.
1928 Unc. $2.00.
1928-S Unc. $2.00.
1934 Unc. $1.50.
1934-S Unc. $2.00.
1935 Unc. $1.50.
A roll of Uncirculated 1926-S dollars was offered for $24 and a roll of 1935-5 for $28 by Lee's Stamp & Coin Shop, Phoenix, in The Numismatist, March 1942. At the time, virtually unlimited quantities of these and certain other San Francisco issues were available for face value from storage at the San Francisco Mint.
In the April 1942 issue of The Numismatist, Arthur B.Kelley, St. Louis dealer, offered these Peace dol-lars. The 1926-S was very high priced in comparison to the advertisements of others. Kelley was not in tUnc with the times.
1923-D Unc. $1.75.
1926-S Unc. $6.00.
1927-S Unc. $6.00.
1934 Unc. $1.75.
1934-D Unc. $1.75.
San Francisco Peace dollars continued to pour out of Treasury stocks in 1942, and many issues became a drug on the market. Norman Shultz in July 1942 offered the following for sale.
1923-S Unc. $1.50.
1926-S Unc. $1.50.
1927-S Unc. $2.50.
As San Francisco Peace dollars continued to come on the market in quantity. George B. Rogers, in The Numismatist, September 1942, offered 1922-S and 1926-S Uncirculated for $1.25 per coin or $24 per roll of 20 pieces.
In the November 1942 issue of The Numismatist, Carroll R. Harris of Seattle, Washington, ran an advertisement containing the following Peace dollars.
1922-S Unc, $1.50.
1923-S Unc. $1.50.
1924-S Unc. $4.00.
1925-S Unc. $3.50.
1926-S Unc. $1.50.
The Franklin Coin Mart published an advertisement in the December 1942 issue of The Numismatist listing the following Peace dollars.
1922-S Unc. $1.50.
1922 Unc. $1.50.
1923-S Unc. $1.50.
1926-D Unc. $2.00.
1926-S Unc. $2.00.
1927 Unc. $1.50.
1927-S Unc. $2.00.
1928 Unc. $2.00.
1935-S Unc. $1.50.