Let's talk about one more American Government try to make its citizens use a dollar coin. The Morgan, Peace, Eisenhower and Susan B Anthony dollars never were popular in utilization among the Americans.
The Sacagawea Dollar coin was first released for circulation on January 27, 2000 with the purpose of honoring Sacagawea, the Shoshone woman who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their expedition to the Pacific Ocean.
It was the same size and weight of the Susan B Anthony dollar, but was golden in color. It weights 8.1g and has a diameter of 26.5mm. Its composition is 88.5% copper, 6% zinc, 3.5% manganese and 2% nickel.
The coin was heavily promoted and nearly three-quarters of a billion Sacagawea dollars were struck for circulation. After an initial wave of enthusiasm, demand for the dollar coins dropped and mintages fell to 5-6 million coins per year from 2002 on.
In 2009, the United States Mint began minting and issuing $1 coins featuring designs celebrating the important contributions made by Indian tribes and individual Native Americans to the history and development of the United States.
The obverse is the same shown above (Sacagawea face). I will show you now some reverses. 2009 commemorates the contribution of Native American women to agriculture, 2010 features the Hiawatha Belt with five arrows representing the five original Nations and 2011 depicts the hands of the Supreme Sachem Ousamequin Massasoit and Governor John Carver, symbolically offering the ceremonial peace pipe after the initiation of the first formal written peace alliance between the Wampanoag tribe and European settlers in 1621.
2012 features a Native American man and horse in profile with horses running in the background, representing the historical spread of the horse. 2013 commemorates the Delaware Treaty of 1778. Its reverse design features a turkey, a howling wolf and a turtle, symbols of the clans of the Delaware Tribe and a ring of 13 stars to represent the Colonies. 2014 depicts a Native American man clasping a ceremonial pipe while his wife holds a plate of provisions, including fish, corn, roots and gourds. In the background is the stylized image of the face of William Clark's compass, displaying "NW" for "northwest."
2016 commemorates Code Talkers from World Wars I and II. 2017 commemorates Sequoyah, a Cherokee silversmith whose creation of a Cherokee Syllabary made reading and writing in Cherokee possible.
Unfortunately the Americans continue to use dollar bills and the effort to change it for a coin was in vain. Why did I say "unfortunately"? Please comment below what you think.
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