The 1921 Peace Dollar was struck in the final days of December as America's official monument to the end of the Great War — de Francisci's Liberty, modeled on his wife Teresa, facing forward into a new decade. This painting makes the coin's own design language build the scene: the rays of Liberty's crown and the rays of the actual dawn become one geometry, so the coin doesn't sit in the sunrise — it is the sunrise. Series opener for "The Peace Dollar — An American Quiet."
