The Coin Shop

The Continental Congress tried to create a Dollar coin in 1776 with moderate success.
A One Dollar Coin was proposed by Thomas Jefferson in 1783.
Thomas Jefferson again proposed a One Dollar coin in 1790 with a proposed weight of 376 grains of fine silver.
Alexander Hamilton, then Secretary of the Treasury, proposed that the weight be set at 371 1/4 grains of fine silver. This fine silver content was not changed until 1803.
Thomas Jefferson halted the production of One Dollar Coins in the early part of 1804.
Seated Liberty Dollars were first struck in 1836.
The Coinage Act of 1873 eliminated the traditional One Dollar Coin and replaced it with the Trade Dollar.
The Morgan Dollar began production is 1878.
Over 270 million Dollar Coins were melted as a result of the Pittman Act of 1918.
Production of One Dollar Coins ceased in 1904 and did not start again until 1921.
The last Peace Dollars were struck in 1935. That is until 1964 when the Denver Mint struck over 300,000 1964-D Peace Dollars. All of these were believed to have been destroyed but rather shabby bookkeeping at the mint has fostered rumours of the survival of some pieces.