1923-D Denver Minted New York World Series $1 Peace Silver Dollar w/ Case

1923-D Denver Minted New York World Series $1 Peace Silver Dollar

The Peace dollar is a United States dollar coin minted for circulation from 1921 to 1928 and 1934 to 1935, and beginning again for collectors in 2021. Designed by Anthony de Francisci, the coin was the result of a competition to find designs emblematic of peace. Its obverse represents the head and neck of the Goddess of Liberty in profile, and the reverse depicts a bald eagle at rest clutching an olive branch, with the legend "Peace". It was the last United States dollar coin to be struck for circulation in silver.

This Peace dollar was struck at the Denver Mint. The Denver Mint only struck 20% of all Peace dollars ever issued. The Denver Mint Peace dollar bears the "D" mint mark. It can be located by looking on the back of the coin below the word "One". The "D" mint mark is present above the letters "O" and "N" in the word "O."

With the passage of the Pittman Act in 1918, the United States Mint was required to strike millions of silver dollars, and began to do so in 1921, using the Morgan dollar design. Numismatists began to lobby the Mint to issue a coin that memorialized the peace following World War I; although they failed to get Congress to pass a bill requiring the redesign, they were able to persuade government officials to take action. The Peace dollar was approved by Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon in December 1921, completing the redesign of United States coinage that had begun in 1907.