New Sacagawea dollar reserses

They changed the ID on it!

http://www.usmint.gov/pressroom/index.cfm?action=press_release&ID=804

United States Mint to Publicly Display Never-Before-Seen Gold “Space Coins” In Milwaukee
Real 22-Karat Gold Versions of Sacagawea Golden Dollars Flew Aboard Historic Space Shuttle Mission

The United States Mint will display for the first time 12 gold proof Sacagawea Golden Dollars that flew aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in July 1999. The 12 gold versions of the circulating Golden Dollars will be unveiled at the American Numismatic Association's World's Fair of Money® in Milwaukee, the largest coin show in the nation. Until now, the gold "space coins" have been stored at Fort Knox. They never have been seen in public, and similar gold coins were never sold, making them extremely rare. Although the coins' value has not been established, they are very unique as historic artifacts.

 

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sac dollar

sac dollar unc rolls dated from 2004 to 2006 were up & double its prices recently. each roll cost $70.00.

 

I like how they forgot that they DID publicly display them at a show shortly after they flew on the shuttle before they hid them away. (They also displayed them at a press conference after the shuttle flight, so this is the third time they will be on display, but only the second time to the general public.)

 

sac dollar

the most important thing for collectors is the date and mint mark. i hope they will put back date and mint mark to the observe or reverse. and put the years that the president served on the edge instead. change the $1 to one dollar. and maintain the "in God we trust" to the obverse. reducing the mintage to below 100,000,000 for each president. make some silver president for collectors same size with the current dollar. and lastly, slab some ms-70 or proof 70 for collectors at a fair market price.

 

Sacagawea will get a new look!

WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress today approved a redesign of the Sacagawea (sah-kah-gah-WEE'-uh) dollar, in hopes of getting more consumers and businesses to use the gold-colored dollar....

http://www.montanasnewsstation.com/Global/story.asp?S=7024975

New editions of the coin will come out in 2009... They're only changing the reverse.


The bill is H.R. 2358

Jeff

 

id like this baby on the front instead
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No, read the legislation. These coins will have the same edge inscriptions that the President dollars have so that means the date and mintmark will be leaving the obv as well. And if the amendment in the appropriations bill isn't changed the mint won't be able to produce them anyway. (Although they have an extra year to change it for the Sac dollar.)

One other thing it does is it reduces the number of Sacs that have to be produced each year from 33% of all the dollars coined to 20%.

 

with all of these proposals on coin changes you have to wonder what the heck is going on?

i've heard that they want to change the prez bucks.........take off the edge lettering.

then i hear of the sacs getting edge lettering and changing the reverse every year etc.

i know it's great for collectors but GEEZ! what's happening?

grizz

 

I agree.:thumb:

This coin, even though it is a nice design owes it's current existence to politics.

Like the SBA dollar, that came into existence during that whole womens lib thing, but at least they had the common sense to put that coin to bed quickly after it was rejected and hated by the public at large and never used.

I have a feeling because there is a "Native American" (Politics) involvement here that this coin will go on for a long time honoring some feat or Indian chief maybe beyond the Presidential dollars.

 

You hear that a lot, but they have never bothered so far to submit any legislation to remove the edge lettering.

 

Yes they have. sort of. This bill dosen't forbid edge lettering.

HR 2510 was introduced on May 24th and refered to Committee. It now has 92 cosponsors.

`(F) INSCRIPTION OF `IN GOD WE TRUST'- The design on the obverse or the reverse shall bear the inscription `In God We Trust'.'.


http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h110-2510

 

Thank you, I was unaware of this bill. Now will it go anywhere? And it moves IGWT back to the obv or rev, but it leaves the rest of the inscriptions on the edge. And I haven't checked in depth what it will do the law. It was intended to move IGWT on the president dollars, and specifies the President dollars in the legislation, but will it apply to the Sac dollars as well?

 

edge lettering disappear

after many years of using it. the edge lettering will be disappeared. and you can even knew the mint mark. check those quarters. some of the edges were became plain.

 

Not if they don't circulate.

 

Or maybe not. Early half cents, large cents, and bust halves in AG usually still clearly show their edge lettering. Handling coins in commerce tends to wear the obv and rev. Not so much the edges. (Perhaps handling by collectors may do that since we always say to handle coins by the edge.)

 

new reverse

any picture or design available?..

 

The whole Indian design is problematic.

Ruben

 

to mrbrklyn

problem like what?.

hey you lived at brooklyn. right?. is there any coin stores at downtown manhattan. i mean not those big company like stalks at those 57th streets. small and friendly one....

 

No there isn't. That is the problem I'm trying to work on. I want to get a small coin show together.

I dislike Stacks more and more everytime I go there. Yesterday the guy yelled at me because someone asked me for an opinion on a gold coin. He wanted to know if I thought it was undergraded in the slab and I told him that I'm not good with gold and I'd need a magnifying glass anyway... and the Stacks guy walked over wagging his finger at me and say, Hey, "Don't ask him. Stop that. We don't allow this here"

It was bizarre and ticked me off to no end. I wanted that SLQ that I showed before so I didn't walk out, but I'll be damned if I EVER EVER buy another coin from that dog.

Nobody should do business with that outfit. They treat people like animals. I felt even more sorry for the guy who asked me the question. He just curled up in a shell. The poor sales girl was stressed to no end, blowing stressfully with cheeks puffed.

Ruben

 

to mrbrklyn

aside the stalks. what other new york coin stores you have visited?.