I finally got a new Sacagawea Dollar from a vending machine. I forgot that the date of mintage is on the edge. As a senior with not the best eyesight, the edge lettering is very hard to read. I will have to buy a magnifying glass to see the year of mintage but I presume it's 2009. It shows the harvesting of crops. Whose idea was moving the date to the edge? Not a good idea. Let's bring back the old date stamping.
I got one of those in Seattle a couple of months back. Can't for the life of me understand why they changed the date placement. It makes it look worse this way.
why is so hard to get 2009 sac.?. you can get it from u.s.mint free of shipping charge. i got 1,000 pc.
Where's the fun in that? I didn't know that 2009 Sac was going to be in circulation. It was a total surprise! BUYING a coin is one thing, FINDING one in circulation is quite another.
the fun is that the mint sell it at face value. free shipping charge. all uncirculated. use credit card and you get $10.00 rebate back from credit card. that is fun.
While it is SUPPOSED to be a circulation coin, my bet is that most of the pieces reaching circulation are getting there because of collectors buying them via the direct ship program and then spending them. I seriously doubt if many, if ANY, of them are entering circulation via the Federal Reserve system. Standard practice at the Fed is not to ship out new coin until the circulated coin on hand is exhausted and since there are probably not a lot of requests coming in for dollar coins except for those banks still ordering each new President dollar, and probably a lot of president dollars being returned I don't see them shipping out new 2009 Native American dollars
My Uncirculated 2009 Sacagaweas I agree it's more fun getting coins in circulation than buying from the Mint. The 2009 Sacs I got from a Metrocard vending machine in NYC this week were in pristine condition; no scratches. I dislike the lack of the date. I finally found it on the edge but is hard to see unless looking up close and in bright light. Why the date was moved I don't understand.
The date was moved because it was decided to move the mottos and date to the edge to allow for larger images on the President dollar. Then when the rev of the Sac dollar was changed it was thought to move the mottos on that coin as well for the same reason. so the legislation simply specified that is have the same edge as the President dollar. This made sense because that way there would only be one type of edge die needed, lest you get mix ups of President edges on Native American dollars and vice versa. Then before production of the 2009 coins the motto IGWT was moved from the edge back to the face of the coin. Since the designs change every year, the year of striking can easily be determined without having to see the date on the edge. The real problem is they put the mintmark on the edge as well and that you have to be able to see. (The mintmark could be moved back to the face without need of legislation because it is NOT mentioned in the previous legislation that placed the inscriptions on the edge. The date IS required to be on the edge though so it would require legislation to move it.)
I get circulation rolls of dollar coins from my bank (to actually spend) and I just got a 2009 Native American dollar in one of them.
