1927-S San Francisco Minted Mount Rushmore $1 U.S. Peace Silver Dollar

1927-S San Francisco Minted Mount Rushmore $1 U.S. Peace Silver Dollar

The Peace Silver Dollar was first struck in 1921 to honor world peace, and the last coin was minted in 1935. It's America's last-ever circulating Silver Dollar. 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 U.S. coin produced for circulation has ever borne that motto. The entire run of Peace dollars consists of just 24 coins. Thus, many collectors strive for complete date-and-mint sets.

On October 4, 1927, sculpting began on the face of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills National Forest of South Dakota. A few hundred workers, most of whom were miners, sculptors, or rock climbers, used dynamite, jackhammers, and chisels to remove material from the mountain. 

The 1927-S Peace dollar had a low mintage of only some 866,000 coins. Quality was quite low, and this issue is plagued by very weak strikes.