1921 $1 Peace Silver Dollar PCGS MS64 (CAC)

Dramatic High Relief One Year Type!

Superior choice example of an oft collected issue. PCGS has graded 4,826 as MS64 with 2,083 finer. In CAC, there are 662 in MS64/64+ with 309 finer. The year 1921 saw the debut of Anthony de Francisci's Art Deco Peace dollar design, which was minted from 1921 to 1928 and again from 1934 to 1935. The Peace dollar carries an obverse image of a young, attractive Lady Liberty, crowned with rays that resemble the iconic Statue of Liberty. The artist-engraver's wife, Teresa Cafarelli de Francisci, was the model for this issue.

Artist-engraver Anthony de Francisci with his wife Teresa, who served as his model for Liberty on the beautiful Peace dollar.

David Hall writes,

The 1921 Peace dollar is a very interesting and extremely important coin. It is, of course, the first year of issue for the Peace dollar series. Slightly over a million pieces were struck, a modest mintage for a silver dollar. But the 1921 was struck in very high relief, not unlike the 1907 High Relief $20 St. Gaudens. For many years the 1921 was not recognized as a separate type coin, although it clearly is such. The PCGS founders, along with the experts on the PCGS (and now PCGS CoinFacts) Board of Experts, confronted this lack of type coin recognition sometime shortly after the 1986 launch of PCGS. We all just start listing the 1921 as a separate type and the numismatic community soon followed suit. So the 1921 is now important as both the first year of issue ... for the Peace dollar series, and as a very important one-year-only 20th century silver type coin.