The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 40, September 18, 2005, Article 8

A 1964-D PEACE DOLLAR STORY

Regarding the Peace Dollar coins struck at the Denver Mint in
1964, Tom DeLorey writes: "Years ago, while I was working at
the ANA, an elderly gentleman came in one day to ask about a
coin. He noticed the old large scale that used to sit in the rotunda,
and mentioned that he used to use one of those when he worked
at the Denver Mint. I asked him if he was working there in the
mid-1960s, and he said yes. I asked him if he remembered when
they struck the Peace dollars then, and he said yes. I then told him
that I had heard that on the days the coins were struck, employees
were allowed to buy one or two of them on the way out that night.
He said that was true, and that he had not bought any but one of
his work buddies did. The buddy then went out and spent them at
a bar on Colfax Ave. The next day management was in an uproar
and told everybody that if they did not return the coins they bought
they would be fired. The buddy said he had spent the coins, and
kept his job."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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