COMPLETE SACAGAWEA $ COLLECTION 2000-2009 DANSCO SET

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COMPLETE 2000-2009 SACAGAWEA GOLDEN DOLLAR COLLECTION Sacagawea Dollar Coin History The Sacagawea dollar coin was first minted by the United States Mint in 2000 and depicts the Shoshone woman Sacagawea , a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition , carrying her son Jean Baptiste Charbonneau . The coins are made from pure copper with a manganese brass outer clad. Sacagawea dollars were released for general circulation only in 2000 and 2001. On March 31 , 2002 production of the coins for circulation was halted due to low demand and the fact that inventories of the coins were filling up Government vaults. Since then, Sacagawea dollars are still being minted on a small scale for collectors and are only available from the United States Mint . With the passage of the Native American $1 Coin Act , the U.S. Mint began designing a series of Sacagawea dollars with modified reverses to further commemorate “Native Americans and the important contributions made by Indian tribes and individual Native Americans to the development of the United States and the history of the United States.” Four designs will be minted, each for one year from 2009 to 2012. The first Native American series coin was released in January 2009 and has a reverse that depicts a Native American woman sowing seeds of the Three Sisters , symbolizing the Indian tribes' read more