Powhatan Arrow
1922

Owner Comments:

Outside of the common 23-D, the 22-S is the easiest of the branch mint Saints in the 1920s. Akers in his 20th Century gold book states that these coins are usually well struck, as this coin is, and he also noted that many have noticable copper spots, which fortunately are absent on this coin. He rates the MS-62 as R-4. Interestingly, like many other issues in this series, the 22-S was once considered a supreme rarity, more rare than the 20-S, 29, 30-S, 31 and 32, but then a hoard was found in Europe in the 1950s, followed by several other hoards in the 1960s and early 1970s, and finally a hoard of more than 200 coins in central America in the 1980s (this could be a useful lesson to collectors of other series which are subject to additional coins surfacing). Overall, this coin has beautiful luster, and a thick original skin, that has not been toyed with over the last 82 years.