(1921)-S Morgan Silver Dollar--Struck 20% Off Center--MS-62 (NGC). Completing our offering of off center 1921-dated Morgan silver dollars in this sale, the present lot highlights a product of the San Francisco Mint. Struck 20% off center to 7 oclock, this is about as far as off center errors come on examples of this type (although there are a few exceedingly rare exceptions). The struck portions are fully defined with intense satin luster, the crescents of virgin planchet with no individually mentionable marks, and the entire package fully untoned and brilliant. The clock position of the error means that the date area is off the flan, but the style of the portrait and eagle leave no doubt that this is a 1921-dated Morgan dollar, and the S mintmark is crisp on the reverse. As related above in our descriptions for the other error coins of this type, most off center Morgan dollars are dated 1921. Writing in the book <em>100 Greatest U.S. Error Coins</em>, Nicholas P. Brown, David J. Camire and Fred Weinberg rank a widely off center 1921-S #23 and note that there are approximately 15 to 20 off center 1921-S dollars known. This is surely one of the most desirable, and it is worthy of the strongest bids.
