2000–2022 Sacagawea Dollar 23-pc Year-Date Collection BU

23 Years Of Sacagawea Dollars

Though circulating “Indian” coins have been struck by the U.S. Mint for more than a century, most were interpretations of Lady Liberty wearing a feathered headdress. The Sacagawea Dollar, first struck in 2000, was the first time that the U.S. Mint struck a coin for circulation featuring a Native American woman. A strikingly beautiful coin, it honors Sacagawea, the Shoshone woman who accompanied Lewis and Clark on their expedition to the Pacific Ocean. The coin was brilliantly designed by Glenna Goodacre, who used Randy’L He-dow Teton—herself a member of the Shoshone tribe—as her model.

Annual One-Year-Only Designs Since 2009

To observe the 23rd anniversary of this series in 2022, we compiled a complete year-date collection that brings together all 23 dates of the Sacagawea Dollar from 2000 to 2022. In it is the very first coin issued in 2000 and the run from 2009 to 2022 that features 14 one-year-only reverse designs. From 2000 to 2008, the reverse remained constant, but from 2009 on the U.S. Mint has used the opportunity to release these inspiring designs showing various Native American themes. They include:

• 2009 depicts a Native American woman planting seeds in a field populated with corn, beans, and squash—the so-called “Three Sisters of Agriculture” central to Native Americans.
• 2010 shows the Hiawatha belt surrounding five stone-tipped arrows. The subject of the design is the “Great Tree of Peace.”
• 2011 features the hands of the Supreme Sachem Ousamequin and Plymouth Colony Governor John Carver holding a ceremonial pipe, to represent treaties with tribal nations.
• 2012 commemorates the trade Routes of the 17th Century and depicts the profile of a Native American and a horse in the foreground and a group of galloping horses in the background.
• 2013 pays tribute to the Treaty with the Lenape in 1778, the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe. The coin depicts a turkey, a howling wolf, and a turtle—all symbols of the Lenape.
• 2014 shows a Native American extending a ceremonial pipe while his wife holds a plate of food, including fish, corn, roots and gourds. In the background is a compass, displaying “NW” for “northwest.”
• 2015 depicts Mohawk ironworkers in honor of the Kahnawake and Akwesasne Mohawk ironworkers who contributed to the building of New York City skyscrapers.
• 2016 commemorates Native American Code talkers from World Wars I and II. It shows the Brodie helmet of WWI and the M1 helmet of WWII along with two feathers which combine to forming a symbolic “V for victory” sign.
• 2017 features a portrait of Sequoyah, a Cherokee scholar who in 1821 created an alphabet that, once adopted by his people, allowed them to surpass the literacy rate of their European-American neighbors.
• 2018 honors legendary athlete Jim Thorpe. A child of Sac and Fox and Potawatomi Indian bloodlines Thorpe is one of America’s greatest athletes, winning gold medals in both the pentathlon and the decathlon at the 1912 Olympics
• 2019 pays tribute to “American Indians in the space program.” It depicts Mary G. Ross, the first Native American female aerospace engineer and John Herrington the first enrolled member of a Native American tribe to fly in space.
• 2020 features a portrait of Elizabeth Peratrovich, whose advocacy was considered a deciding factor in the passage of the 1945 Anti-Discrimination Law in the Alaskan territorial government. The foreground features a symbol of the Tlingit Raven moiety, of which she was a member.
• 2021 pays tribute to Native Americans in the U.S. Military. The design features eagle feathers, which were traditionally earned in battle or by performing a brave deed. Stars representing five branches of the U.S. military are in the foreground, while a circle provides an additional reference to Native Americans.
• 2022 honors Ely Samuel Parker, a U.S. Army officer, engineer, and tribal diplomat, who served as military secretary to Ulysses S. Grant during the U.S. Civil War. He is depicted in Army uniform along with the inscriptions “TONAWANDA SENECA” and “HA-SA-NO-AN-DA” his tribe and the name given to him at birth.

Each coin in this comprehensive collection comes in original Brilliant Uncirculated (BU) condition as fresh and crisp as the day they left the mint. In addition, the entire collection will come beautifully housed in a custom presentation case. Order yours now!