1964-D Peace Dollar
Key dateStruck but never issued, and the reason this catalog has a twenty-fifth entry for a twenty-four coin series. In May 1965 the Denver Mint struck 316,076 Peace dollars dated 1964 under pressure from Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. Within days the Mint reclassified them as trial strikes and reported all of them melted. Congress then banned silver dollar coinage for five years. Two specimens found in a Treasury vault in 1970 were ordered destroyed, and no example is known in any public or private collection, including the Smithsonian. PCGS has a standing $10,000 reward simply to examine an authentic one, and it has never been claimed.
Mintage
- Business strikes
- None confirmed
- Mint
- Denver (D)
- Mintage rank
- 1 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.
About this figure
Reported as 316,076 by the Mint and by PCGS. The Wikipedia mintage table gives 316,106, contradicting the figure in its own article text; that appears to be a transcription error, so the 316,076 figure is used. Business strikes are recorded as none confirmed because none was ever released and none is known to survive.
Scarcity tier
Key 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
Specific to the 1964-D:
- 1Pieces sold as 1964-D Peace dollars are privately made restrikes and copies, often struck over genuine earlier-date Peace dollars. Under the Hobby Protection Act, such copies must be marked COPY; many are not.
- 2If you believe you have encountered a genuine example, the grading services and the Mint are the appropriate contacts, not a marketplace listing.
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 1964-Dcertification 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.
Why there is no “find one for sale” link here
No genuine 1964-D Peace dollar is known to exist, and any that does remains U.S. government property, so there is nothing here that can lawfully be bought. Coin Curator does not link to a marketplace search for this date: everything such a search returns is a replica, a fantasy piece, or an altered coin of another date.
Common questions
How many 1964-D Peace dollars were minted?
No 1964-D business strikes are confirmed to exist. Reported as 316,076 by the Mint and by PCGS. The Wikipedia mintage table gives 316,106, contradicting the figure in its own article text; that appears to be a transcription error, so the 316,076 figure is used. Business strikes are recorded as none confirmed because none was ever released and none is known to survive.
Is the 1964-D Peace dollar a key date?
Coin Curator labels it a key 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. Struck but never issued, and the reason this catalog has a twenty-fifth entry for a twenty-four coin series. In May 1965 the Denver Mint struck 316,076 Peace dollars dated 1964 under pressure from Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield. Within days the Mint reclassified them as trial strikes and reported all of them melted. Congress then banned silver dollar coinage for five years. Two specimens found in a Treasury vault in 1970 were ordered destroyed, and no example is known in any public or private collection, including the Smithsonian. PCGS has a standing $10,000 reward simply to examine an authentic one, and it has never been claimed.
Can you buy a 1964-D Peace dollar?
No genuine 1964-D Peace dollar is known to exist, and any that does remains U.S. government property, so there is nothing here that can lawfully be bought. Coin Curator does not link to a marketplace search for this date: everything such a search returns is a replica, a fantasy piece, or an altered coin of another date.
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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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