1934-S Peace Dollar - 1934-S Peace $1 PCGS MS63 CAC. This bright, white Select Uncirculated 1934-S Peace Dollar has just a touch of very light toning on both sides with one small dark spot near the eagles right foot. The grade is confirmed by CAC indicating the coin is of premium quality and fully merits the assigned grade. The surfaces are original and clean for the grade. The strike is above average with full details on Libertys hair even in the center of the coin.  

Anthony de Francisci designed the Peace dollar. It shows Liberty wearing a radiate crown reminiscent of an earlier Roman coin. Across the front of her head is a loose braid that continues around her head and falls with her other wind-blown hair. The hair at the back of her head is held with a loose knot. Her neck, which is truncated, separates the motto IN GOD and WE TRUST. (De Francisci used the Roman style of lettering on the motto with the U written as V, causing some confusion. He did not use Roman lettering on the reverse.) His lovely twenty-three year old wife Teresa was the model.

The eagle on the reverse is a realistic portrayal with its head alert and wings folded as it faces the symbolic rays of the sun at the lower right. It stands on a rocky cliff with an olive branch next to it. The denomination is written in a straight line, interrupted by the eagles body. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and E PLURIBUS UNUM are in two circular arcs at the top of the coin. The mintmark is found close to the tip of the wing. The word PEACE is written at the bottom of the cliff on which the eagle is perched, hence the name of the design.

The reverse was to be emblematic of the crimes against humanity (France, Belgium, and Serbia) that Germany and its allies perpetrated. Later it was to have been a Victory dollar, similar to the Victory postage stamp that was issued in 1919. It is interesting to note that the original reverse design had the eagle breaking a sword on which it was perched. However, some feared criticism that the symbolism would be interpreted as defeat rather than peace so the design was changed, and an olive branch was substituted for the sword.