1922-P Peace Dollar
Common dateThe highest mintage of the series and one of the most common U.S. silver dollars in any grade. It is also the year the design changed: after the 1921 dies failed, the Mint struck a small run of 1922 dollars still in high relief, then abandoned the approach and lowered the relief for the production coinage below.
Mintage
- Business strikes
- 51,737,000
- Mint
- Philadelphia (no mintmark)
- Mintage rank
- 25 of 25
Rank 1 is the lowest business-strike mintage in the series. Mintage is what the Mint produced, not what survives: the Pittman Act recoinage that created this series melted silver dollars in the hundreds of millions without recording dates, and later melts and hoards moved the numbers again.
Reading the figure
It is the largest of the 10 Philadelphia issues in the series. Of the 84,275,000 struck across all mints in 1922, this issue accounts for 61%. That is 3.4 times the Denver figure for the same year. The 1922 split ran Philadelphia 51,737,000, San Francisco 17,475,000 and Denver 15,063,000. The series median is 1,939,000, so this issue is more than twice as numerous as a typical date. Series-wide output rose sharply that year: 84,275,000 against 1,006,473 in 1921. 1922 was the largest production year of the entire series.
Every sentence above is computed from the mintage table on this page, not asserted separately.
About this figure
The 51,737,000 figure covers the low-relief production coinage only. A separate 35,401 high-relief 1922 dollars were struck in January 1922 and ordered melted; roughly a dozen are believed to survive, mostly from presentation pieces rather than the melted run. They are not counted here and are not a coin the ordinary market offers.
Scarcity tier
Common date
Assigned from reported mintage alone: under 750,000 is a key date, under 2,500,000 is a semi-key.
This is a reproducible label derived from the mintage column, not a market valuation and not a Coin Curator price opinion. The same thresholds apply to every series on this site. Several dates are far harder or far easier to obtain than their mintage implies; where that is true, it is stated above.
Documented varieties
1922 High Relief
The abandoned January 1922 striking in the 1921 high relief. Almost all were melted, and surviving examples are among the rarest pieces in twentieth-century U.S. numismatics.
Widely recognised varieties only. The VAM reference catalogs thousands of die marriages across these series; the absence of a variety here does not mean none is documented elsewhere.
Weak strike is not wear. Peace dollars are notoriously softly struck, particularly the San Francisco issues of the 1920s. Read the full note on the series page.
What to check before buying
Specific to the 1922-P:
- 1A coin offered as a "1922 High Relief" needs extraordinary evidence. Ordinary 1922 dollars are abundant, so the incentive to misdescribe one is obvious.
And for any certified coin
Verify the certification number on the grading service’s own lookup rather than from a photograph of the label, match the listing images to the certification record including grade and any variety attribution, look for cleaning, compare the mintmark against published photographs of the genuine issue, and read the return policy before buying. The grading guide covers each of these in full.
Coin Curator does not grade, authenticate, or appraise coins, and publishes no price or population data. These are verification steps, not a valuation.
Verify a certification number
Look a 1922-Pcertification number up on the service’s own site. A photograph of a label proves nothing.
Each service publishes its own guarantee with conditions and exclusions. Compare PCGS, NGC and ANACS.
Find a 1922-P for sale
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Common questions
How many 1922-P Peace dollars were minted?
The Philadelphia Mint struck 51,737,000 1922-P Peace dollars for circulation. That is the 25th lowest business-strike mintage of the 25 date and mintmark combinations in the series.
Is the 1922-P Peace dollar a key date?
Coin Curator labels it a common date, assigned from reported mintage alone: under 750,000 struck is a key date and under 2,500,000 is a semi-key. The same thresholds are used for every series on this site, so the tiers are comparable between them. That label describes production, not market value or how hard the coin is to find today. The highest mintage of the series and one of the most common U.S. silver dollars in any grade. It is also the year the design changed: after the 1921 dies failed, the Mint struck a small run of 1922 dollars still in high relief, then abandoned the approach and lowered the relief for the production coinage below.
What varieties exist for the 1922-P Peace dollar?
Widely recognised varieties for this issue include 1922 High Relief. The abandoned January 1922 striking in the 1921 high relief. Almost all were melted, and surviving examples are among the rarest pieces in twentieth-century U.S. numismatics. Variety attributions should appear on the certification label rather than only in a seller's description.
What should I check before buying a 1922-P Peace dollar?
Verify the certification number on the grading service's own lookup page, match the listing photographs to the certification record, check for cleaning, and compare the mintmark shape and position against published photographs of the genuine issue. A coin offered as a "1922 High Relief" needs extraordinary evidence. Ordinary 1922 dollars are abundant, so the incentive to misdescribe one is obvious.
Why do sources give different mintage figures for the 1922-P?
The 51,737,000 figure covers the low-relief production coinage only. A separate 35,401 high-relief 1922 dollars were struck in January 1922 and ordered melted; roughly a dozen are believed to survive, mostly from presentation pieces rather than the melted run. They are not counted here and are not a coin the ordinary market offers.
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Guides for this coin
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1 min readMintage sources
Mintage figures are U.S. Mint production records, cross-checked against the published tables below on 2026-07-31. Where those tables disagree, the disagreement is disclosed on the affected page rather than resolved silently.
- Wikipedia, "Peace dollar" mintage figures table — Per-mint breakdown cited to Breen, Complete Encyclopedia of U.S. and Colonial Coins.
- CoinMintages.com, Peace dollar mintages — Lists the 1921 and 1922 high-relief strikings separately from the regular issues.
- GovMint, silver Peace dollar mintage chart — Published as sourced from U.S. Mint records.
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