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: millions of silver dollars were melted under the Pittman Act of 1918 without the dates being recorded.
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. Flatness at the centre of Liberty's hair and on the eagle's feathers is often a striking characteristic rather than wear, and grading services account for it. Judge circulation wear on the cheek, the hair above the ear, and the eagle's shoulder, and compare against images of the same date rather than against a sharply struck coin from another year.
What to check before buying
- 1Verify the certification number on the grading service's own lookup page, not on the listing. A photograph of a label is not verification.
- 2Match the coin in the listing photographs to the coin described on the certification record, including the grade and any variety attribution.
- 3Look for cleaning: unnatural brightness, fine parallel hairlines in the fields, and a flat, lifeless surface under angled light.
- 4Check the mintmark shape and position against published photographs of the genuine issue. Added and altered mintmarks are the most common silver dollar alteration.
- 5Read the seller's return policy before bidding or buying, and confirm it covers authenticity and grade disputes.
- 6Pieces 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.
- 7If you believe you have encountered a genuine example, the grading services and the Mint are the appropriate contacts, not a marketplace listing.
Coin Curator does not grade, authenticate, or appraise coins, and publishes no price or population data. These are verification steps, not a valuation. Read the grading guide.
Verify a certification number
If a 1964-Dis offered as certified, look the number up on the grading service’s own site and confirm the date, mintmark, grade, and any variety attribution match the listing. A photograph of a label proves nothing on its own.
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.
Related dates
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.
Spotted an error? Submit a correction.