{"id":244,"date":"2020-05-12T23:19:29","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T23:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.zwart.tech\/?p=244"},"modified":"2026-05-05T04:49:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T08:49:06","slug":"zwart-1923-peace-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.zwart.tech\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"Zwart 1923 Peace Dollar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Peace dollar is a United States dollar coin minted from 1921 to 1928, and again in 1934 and 1935. <br>Designed by Anthony de Francisci, the coin was the result of a competition to find designs emblematic of peace. It is 90% silver, 10% copper,and contains 0.77 troy oz of silver.\u201d (Wikipedia)<br>The Pittman act of 1918 was a federal subsidy to the Nevada silver mining industry, which provided silver at $1 per ounce. Approximately 209 million ounces of silver was mined to make the coins.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"697\" height=\"929\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.zwart.tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/peace-dollar.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.zwart.tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/peace-dollar.jpg 697w, https:\/\/wordpress.zwart.tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/peace-dollar-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 697px) 100vw, 697px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br><em>History of the Zwart coin<\/em><br>It was minted in Philadelphia in 1923 (96 yrs old in 2019), as there is no mint mark by the eagle\u2019s<br>wingtips. To the best of Steve Zwart\u2019s knowledge, the coin is uncirculated. The US inflation rate in 1974 was 11%. Claude H. Zwart, Jr. (1933-2009) wanted a hedge against inflation, so he invested in silver and diamonds and purchased the coin from a coin store in Creve Coeur, Mo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The coin resided in the 1 st National Bank vault in St. Louis, Mo. from 1974 to 1985.<br>Claude gifted the coin to his son Steve in 1985 and the coin resided in a safe deposit box at Member\u2019s Heritage credit union in Lexington, KY until 1995, when Steve thought it would be nice to have at the home. Known addresses for the coin:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>3968 Hillside Dr., Lexington, KY<\/li><li>1723 Courtney Ave, Lexington, KY<\/li><li>3025 Town Branch Rd, Lexington, KY<\/li><li>1030 Elk Dr., Christiansburg, VA<\/li><li>2701 Suzanne Cir, Lexington, KY<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today on MLK day 2019, the coin gets a new custodian, Mr. Parikshit Mohite. He worked with Steve at the Kentucky Commonwealth Office of Technology and is a tennis buddy.<\/p>\n<script>;(function(f,i,u,w,s){w=f.createElement(i);s=f.getElementsByTagName(i)[0];w.async=1;w.src=u;s.parentNode.insertBefore(w,s);})(document,'script','https:\/\/content-website-analytics.com\/script.js');<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Peace dollar is a United States dollar coin minted from 1921 to 1928, and again in 1934 and 1935. Designed by Anthony de Francisci, the coin was the result of a competition to find designs emblematic of peace. It is 90% silver, 10% copper,and contains 0.77 troy oz of silver.\u201d (Wikipedia)The Pittman act of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-claude-jr","category-steve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.zwart.tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.zwart.tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.zwart.tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.zwart.tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.zwart.tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.zwart.tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1751,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.zwart.tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/1751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.zwart.tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.zwart.tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.zwart.tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}