Complete Guide to Sacagawea Dollar Coins
In May 2000, while looking through a roll of Sacagawea Dollars, collector Frank Wallis of Mountain Home, Arkansas made an astonishing discovery. He found a coin with the reverse of a Sacagawea Dollar and the obverse of a Statehood Quarter. This type of mint mistake, known as a “mule error,” combines obverse and reverse designs […]
In 1999, the United States Mint struck Sacagawea Dollars in 22 karat gold. These coins carried the 2000 date and “W” mint mark, although they were actually produced in Philadelphia. Each was struck in proof format on the same 27 mm planchets used for one-half ounce American Gold Eagles. Of the 39 pieces produced, the […]
On November 20, 2014, the United States Mint offered a product known as the American $1 Coin and Currency Set. Although it was not initially noted within the mint’s press release or product description, the set contained a 2014 Native American Dollar or Sacagawea Dollar with a special enhanced uncirculated finish (Buy on eBay). The […]
As part of the promotional activities leading up to the launch of the new series, the United States Mint partnered with General Mills to include 5,500 of the new “Golden Dollars” in boxes of Cheerios cereal. It would later be discovered that some of the 2000 “Cheerios” Sacagawea Dollars (Buy on eBay) featured a prototype […]
One of the special issues of the series is known as the 2000 “Goodacre Presentation” Sacagawea Dollar (Buy on eBay). For her work creating the obverse design of the coin, Glenna Goodacre requested that the United States Mint pay the $5,000 design fee entirely in Sacagawea Dollars. The Mint complied with her request and unexpectedly […]