1922-P Philadelphia Lincoln Memorial $1 Peace Silver Dollar w/ Case

1922-P Philadelphia Lincoln Memorial $1 Peace Silver Dollar w/ Case

This is a 1922 Philadelphia minted Peace dollar. The coins have a circulation strike of 51,737,000. The Peace Silver Dollar was first struck in 1921 to honor world peace, and the last coin was minted in 1935. The obverse of the coin depicts a finely chiseled portrait of Liberty. The reverse of the coin shows an eagle in repose atop a crag, peering toward the sun through a series of rays, with the word PEACE superimposed on the rock. No other US coin produced for circulation has ever borne that motto. The entire run of Peace dollars consists of just 24 coins.

The dedication ceremony in 1922 included a number of notable figures: the President of Tuskegee Institute, Dr. Robert Moton; Chief Justice of the United States (and former president) William Howard Taft; President Warren G. Harding; and Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert Todd Lincoln, who was also a former secretary of war and ambassador to Great Britain. The audience also included Civil War veterans from both North and South. Not only were there over 50,000 people in attendance, this ceremony was broadcast across the nation through the new medium of radio.