Silver Dollars & Trade Dollars of the United States - A Complete Encyclopedia

In 1977 the regular Eisenhower dollar coinage was resumed, exactly in the form used from 1971 to 1974. There are few special features of these last few years, except to note that silver dad dollars turned up from the Denver Mint again, dated 1977. The Treasury had decreed that silver clad pieces wouldnot be made for collectors after the end of the Bicentennial coinage and the reason for the 1977-D coinage is uncertain. The accidental shipment of blanks from San Francisco is the most likely reason, however.

The Eisenhower dollars were last coined in 1978 as the Treasury had come to realize that a large coin of this type simply would not circulate in the United States. The Mint Bureau then came lip with the idea for a smaller dollar; this will be covered in the Susan B. Anthony section.