Guide to Sacagawea Dollars
Guide to Sacagawea Dollars
Lets start with the basics, the Sacagawea dollar is a United States dollar coin first minted in 2000, although not minted for general circulation from 2002 to 2008 and again from 2012 onward due to its general unpopularity with the public and low business demand for the coin. It has a gold color but it is not made of gold, nor does it have any gold content.
In 2008, the Native American $1 Coin Act dictated that a design change one that memorializes the Native Americans and “the important contributions made by individual tribes and individual Native Americans to the development of the United States.” Also, the act called for edge markings to include the year of minting, mint marks, and the motto E PLURIBUS UNUM to be incuse on the edge of the coin. Thus using the sides in addition to the face of the coins surface.
Glenna Goodacre’s portrait of Native American Shoshone Sacagawea and her infant son, Jean Baptiste, was the winner selected during a national competition for the obverse design of the coin. Thomas D. Rogers, Sr. designed the reverse of the coin featuring an American bald eagle soaring in flight was also selected for the back.
Value: these dollars are common
and do not carry much of a premium over face value, thus the vast majority are
worth $1.00 With that said there are a
few which do have significantly more value that the $1.00 face value they are
know as the cheerios dollar (these were given away free in boxes of cheerios https://www.pcgs.com/news/cheerios-sacagawea-dollar-found-without-enhanced-tail-feathers-design and the wounded
Eagle https://www.pcgs.com/coinfacts/coin/2000-p-sac-1-wounded-eagle-fs-901/147883 and finally the P presentation also know as th Goodacre
dollar. To pay the winner the US Mint struck 5,000 Sacagawea
Dollars for Glenna Goodacre the $5,000 commission. Mint Director Phil Dhiel
delivered the 5,000 Sacagawea coins directly to Glenna Goodacre at her home in
Santa Fe, New Mexico.
About five years later, it was discovered that
the coins which were paid to Glenna Goodacre were struck on specially prepared
planchets (blank coin) and by specially produced dies. As a result, these
Goodacre Presentation coins displayed a different appearance that was fairly
transparent. The coins struck off these dies have a burnished satin like
appearance. Also the coins tend to be of
much higher quality than most regular circulation strike Sacagawea Dollars from
the same date and mint mark. .
| 2000 P Cheerios * | $1,500.00 | $1,200.00 | $3,000.00 | $2,600.00 | |
| 2000 P Wounded Eagle * | $275.00 | $225.00 | $475.00 | $390.00 | |
| 2000 P Presentation * | $300.00 | $225.00 | $350.00 | $300.00 |
This coin is one of the most mistaken for valuable by inexperienced coin collectors. This leads to disappointment when they think they have a valuable coin, and then they realize it not and only worth a dollar. If you are one of the lucky ones to find one of the rare ones, we suggest you send them to either PCGS or NGC for grading, as it will increase the value of your find. Often the best price for gold & silver coins is available online from national coin buyers like www.cashforcoins.net Research can make you thousands of dollars more than the price that was offered locally. For Free estimates & offers visit our Custom & Rare Coin Offers Page
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