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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ben_Bovas, post: 3120, member: 476&quot;]Ah, the &quot;golden&quot; dollar!</p><p><br /></p><p>I take it from your question that you are talking about the silverish hues at the bottom of the obverse. I think it looks like toning of some sort. Compositional errors (wrong planchet) are usually uniform throughout. Does the reverse show the same pattern? It looks like in was in contact for a long time with some other coin or reactive surface causing the change in color. </p><p><br /></p><p>Another possibility is that the strip from which the planchet was cut was not very well mixed, but that seems like a long shot. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Sacagawea Dollar is made of a strange alloy, and I am of the opinion (I&#039;m not alone either) that the mint could have selected a better wearing composition. Beginning in 2000 I kept one in my pocket pretty much all the time for several months. They look pretty bad pretty quickly, with lots of silvery tone to the worn parts. The reason more people don&#039;t see the wear very much? The coins don&#039;t circulate.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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