1934-S $1 Peace Silver Dollar PCGS MS64 (CAC)

Popular better-date in the Peace dollar series. This issue is challenging to find in grades above MS64. PCGS has graded 628 in MS64, with 355 finer. In CAC, there are 138 in MS64/64+ with 84 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.

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 [Hellenic] beauty seems to have been superseded by the newer 'flapper' type."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."