Mint began striking the coin in standard low relief for circulation, and the rest is history! The coin still wound up being rather short-lived, being struck for just 10 years, but its legacy lives on in collections around the world — just like the one you can create with this three-coin set. Many of these have worn out or been melted down, making these sets harder and harder to assemble. Get yours now! These historic coins are getting harder to find every year, so grab yours now!
Clear All. Skip to the end of the images gallery. Skip to the beginning of the images gallery. Availability: Out of Stock. This item is currently Out of Stock. There is the high relief variety and the normal relief variety. Originally these Peace dollars were struck in high relief, which means that the images stand out more and they are more detailed.
There were 35, high relief silver dollars minted in , and most of them were melted down. The ones that survived are very valuable. During the design changed to normal relief. This coin in circulated condition is worth at least its weight in silver.
The high relief silver dollar with no mint mark is very rare. Click here to search for silver dollars on Amazon. Many factors go into determining the value of a coin and this results in some of them being quite valuable. The rarer the coin is, the more valuable your Peace silver dollar will be.
Next to the Morgan silver dollar , the Peace silver dollar is the second most popular United States silver dollar to collect. A complete set of peace dollars in circulated grades can be assembled at a reasonable cost. However, trying to assemble a set of uncirculated coins will take some time and patience to find the right coins for your collection.
The more advanced collector will also strive to acquire each one of the following examples in the best condition possible. To comply with the Pittman Act of , the U. Treasury Department authorized the striking of millions of silver dollars in using the old Morgan Dollar design.
Artists at the United States Mint needed additional time to finish the design of the new Peace silver dollar. Sculptor Anthony de Francisci created the Peace silver dollar design in high relief.
The new design caused the highest points of the design on the coin to be weakly struck and lacking in detail. Between the Philadelphia, Denver, and San Francisco Mint, a total of over 68 million Morgan silver dollars were struck in while only slightly more than one million Peace silver dollars were made.
In , de Francisci lowered the relief to correct the problems with striking the coins properly. Therefore, the Peace silver dollar is a one-year design type coin. Also, proximately 35, high relief peace dollars were also minted.
However, because the coins were difficult to make with their high relief, production quickly halted. A few of these coins were sent to mint headquarters in Washington DC. The rest of them were supposedly destroyed. However, a few of them slipped out into general circulation. Be on the lookout for these highly valuable high-relief peace dollars. Coins are minted using a tremendous amount of pressure.
The larger the coin is, the more pressure that must be used to strike it.
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