1934-S $1 Peace Silver Dollar PCGS AU58 (CAC)

Attractive, desirable issue of the popular Peace dollar series in a very collectible grade. The year 1934 was the series' penultimate year, after it had not been produced since 1928. This better date Peace dollar has 672 pieces graded AU58 by PCGS, with 2,701 finer. In CAC, there are 83 in AU58, with 304 finer.

Farren Zerbe, historian of the American Numismatic Association, worked tirelessly to prepare a bill to present to Congress so that it would consider the creation of a design of the new "Peace" dollar.

The American Numismatic Association (ANA), guided by their official historian, Farren Zerbe, worked tirelessly to prepare a bill to present to Congress so that it would consider the creation of a design of the new "Peace" dollar. Due largely to the herculean efforts of the ANA, on May 9, 1921, a joint resolution was introduced to Congress that advanced the idea that such a coin be designed to honor the end of the "War to End All Wars." Because of governmental delays, however, it was not until November of 1921 that nine artists were asked to create designs for the new coin. They were given only three weeks to submit their designs, and a mere four days after that to craft models of their sketches. The winning design was by Anthony DeFrancisci, an Italian immigrant who had his young wife serve as his model.

Upon its release, a newspaper in Philadelphia wrote,  "Liberty is getting younger. Take it from the new 'Peace Dollar,' put in circulation yesterday, the young woman who has been adorning silver currency for many years, never looked better than in the 'cart wheel' that the Philadelphia Mint has just started to turn out. The young lady, moreover, has lost her Greek profile. [Hellenic] beauty seems to have been superseded by the newer 'flapper' type." Numismatic author Q. David Bowers writes, "In my opinion, the design is one of the most beautiful in American numismatics.... Peace dollars evoke a nostalgic era in United States history."