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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Coinchemistry 2012, post: 2174391, member: 28107&quot;]Not quite.&nbsp; Here is an interesting article from PCGS on the 1964-D Peace Dollars that address several points of contention on this issue.&nbsp; It was written by a member of the PCGS Board of Experts.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.pcgs.com/News/1964-d-Peace-Dollars-Do-They-Really-Exist" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pcgs.com/News/1964-d-Peace-Dollars-Do-They-Really-Exist" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcgs.com/News/1964-d-Peace-Dollars-Do-They-Really-Exist</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Question Posed Here: What did the 1964-D Peace Dollars look like?</p><p>PCGS:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The coins were struck on 90% silver planchets, had an identical design to the Peace dollars struck from 1921-1935 (with the exception of the date) and had a D mintmark on the reverse. The Mint struck a total of 316,076 circulation strike 1964-D Peace dollars (not including 30 test strike pieces).&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Question Posed:&nbsp; But none exist, right?</p><p><br /></p><p>PCGS:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;On May 24, 1965 the White House rescinded the President&#039;s instructions to produce the coins and ordered all 1964-D Peace dollars to be destroyed. Eva Adams, Director of the U.S. Mint at the time, oversaw both the production and destruction of the 1964-D Peace dollars.</p><p><br /></p><p>Due to the large volume of coins struck, the Mint decided to weigh the coins during the retrieval process as opposed to counting each coin individually. The weight of the 1964-D Peace dollars included the scrap and webbing from which the coins were struck to try to obtain an accurate weigh in. There were several U.S. Mint personnel who witnessed the melting of these coins to ensure that all had been destroyed.</p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>As time went by, there were rumors that some 1964-D Peace dollars had escaped the U.S. Mint. Eva Adams was under a lot of scrutiny and when asked whether any of these coins existed, her response was that they were all melted.</u></b> <b><u>However, years later according to Mint records, two test strikes resurfaced. The two coins that surfaced were apparently from the 30 test pieces that were sent to Washington for inspection.</u></b> Those two coins remained in the Treasury Vault until 1970 but were immediately destroyed by the U.S. Mint as soon as they were discovered...</p><p><br /></p><p><b><u>Others have mentioned that in 1965 Mint employees were given the opportunity to exchange the 1964-D Peace dollars at face value when they were originally struck. However, the Mint requested that employees bring them back once they were ordered to be destroyed</u></b>.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>So it appears more were discovered after the government had already supposedly &quot;melted&quot; them all.&nbsp; Interesting... And Carr in other threads has questioned (unless I misunderstood him) whether a reasonable person of ordinary intellect could conclude that pieces might very well exist.&nbsp; And the employees were &quot;requested&quot; to bring these back and not ordered.&nbsp; As far as I know, the Mint would have no contempt powers over them and they could tell the Mint to go away and find another job.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hernandez also mentions that there was no authorization and the 1964 SMS pieces supposedly don&#039;t exist either, but they clearly do.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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