Find Out What Happened To The 1964 Peace Dollars!

I think if you really got into it you would find that they circulated more in certain areas of the west than other areas, but they were probably still not really that popular.

My uncle who died in 1957 worked in a cinnabar (mercury)mine in Idaho or Montana during the early 50's and was paid each week with silver dollars. That was normal in that era in that part of the west.

In 1983 the casinos in Nevada the dollar slots used Eisenhower dollars. I played several in Reno, Lake Tahoe and Las Vegas. Soon after that most of the casinos started using the tokens that you can still find at some casinos. The franklin mint made most of the tokens I think. I played with a few last week in Las Vegas and they were dated in the late 80's.

Oftentimes many western businesses would pay their workers with silver dollars to demonstrate to the local community how much the business contributed to the local economy. The question would be were the dollar coins handed back out in change so they continued to circulate, or did they go from the mine to the workers to the businesses to the bank where the mine would pick them up again for the next payroll?

It wasn't just the west. There was a local factory in here in Newark Ohio that paid out in Silver dollars. This was also a B&O depot town; most of the workers preferred Silver dollars from the bank when they cashed their checks.

I have a friend who owned a Gas Station here in town from 56 till 72. He has a "treasure box" that he threw all the silver dollars in and saved them for his son. I just inventoried them for him and there are 623 silver dollars in there; which goes to show how late some of these were circulating in central Ohio.

My Grandfather also owned the Silver Spur Casino in Carson City Nv. I remember sitting on bags of Silver dollars and doing my homework in the 60s. I used to help in the counting room and pull Silver dollars out in the 70s. As I recall it was rare but not unheard of to sill find a Silver dollar or two in a winners bucket up through the verrrrrry early 80s. Gramps passed in 82; so I had no association with the Casino after that.

Buuuut believe it or not; not everyone heard of the Hunt brothers back then. And Gamblers don't care if their dollar is worth more than a dollar..especially when they could put it in a machine and make it 100 dollars!

64 as in the year not grade for the ones that dont exist.

But regardless of that your link was showing PCGS and NGC graded ones which are without a doubt real