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Message:: [QUOTE="pumpkinpie, post: 1347831, member: 34244"]The Peace dollar, unanimously. Struck in .900 fine silver it will always have melt value as well as numismatic value. It was originally designed by Anthony de Francisci as a peace coin to celebrated the end of the WWI. before it was announced that the Morgan dollar would resume in 1921, many people wanted to have a new dollar coin  that commemorated the peace following WWI and the flu epidemic of 1918. He modeled Lady Liberty after his wife, what he truly believed she would look like. In 1921, a high-relief design was used, but was proven unnecessary for general circulation. 1.006 million high-relief coins were made, and they are very expensive. For 1922, some thirty-five thousand high relief coins were made, all as a matte proof configuration. for the rest of 1922 and beyond, the dies were modified to have lower relief. No Peace dollars were minted from 1929 to 1933, presumably because the Great Depression withdrew much of the demand for larger denomination silver coins. On 8/3/64, legislation provided authorization for production of roughly 45 million Peace dollars. All were made in 1965 at the Denver Mint dated 1964, and all were later melted. None are known in museums or private collections.[/QUOTE]