1923-S Peace Dollar

Common date

Common in circulated grades and a well-documented condition rarity above the middle mint-state range, where strike quality and surface preservation both work against it.

Mintage

Business strikes: 19,020,000
Mint: San Francisco (S)
Mintage rank: 23 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 9 San Francisco issues in the series. Of the 56,631,000 struck across all mints in 1923, this issue accounts for 34%. Philadelphia struck 1.6 times as many that year. The 1923 split ran Philadelphia 30,800,000, San Francisco 19,020,000 and Denver 6,811,000. The series median is 1,939,000, so this issue is more than twice as numerous as a typical date.

Every sentence above is computed from the mintage table on this page, not asserted separately.

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.

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

Nothing about this date calls for a check beyond the ones that apply to any certified coin.

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 1923-Scertification number up on the service’s own site. A photograph of a label proves nothing.

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Common questions

How many 1923-S Peace dollars were minted?

The San Francisco Mint struck 19,020,000 1923-S Peace dollars for circulation. That is the 23rd lowest business-strike mintage of the 25 date and mintmark combinations in the series.

Is the 1923-S 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. Common in circulated grades and a well-documented condition rarity above the middle mint-state range, where strike quality and surface preservation both work against it.

What should I check before buying a 1923-S 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.

Guides for this coin

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Vintage Guide

Peace Dollar Collecting Guide

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Morgan Dollar Key Dates and Varieties

The 1893-S, 1895 Proof-only, 1889-CC, and important VAM varieties show why date, mint, attribution, and condition must be researched together.

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MS-63 vs MS-65 vs MS-67: Which Grade to Actually Buy

Adjacent grades can carry very different market evidence. Learn how to compare surfaces, eye appeal, population data, and current records before choosing a grade.

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PCGS vs NGC vs ANACS: Which Grading Service for Coins?

Compare PCGS, NGC, and ANACS by current service terms, holder and guarantee limitations, verification tools, and the needs of the particular coin.

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Mintage 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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