Sioux mint set

Hi! I haven't collected US coins in decades, focused as I am on the Roman Empire, and I've never seen anything like this. Picked it up at a garage sale and wondered what it was. It's apparently a US mint product. I have some questions, though.

Are these coins legal tender on the Pine Ridge Reservation? How about in general commerce throughout the USA?

Are coins minted for other tribes/Indian nations?

This is dated 2014. Is there a set like this from each year? Do the designs change yearly?

 

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Nope, privately minted. The U.S. Mint doesn't strike coins for foreign countries, of which the Sioux Nation would be one of. Well done set, and I would like to have one if they were in the $10 range.

 

I thought the US mint made coins for lots of other countries.

 

They stopped in the 1970's (I think 1973), and The Royal Canadian Mint jumped into the void with their new Winnipeg mint. They said they were to busy dealing with U.S. coin needs to devote time and resources to outside needs. They used to strike medals too for organizations, but that stopped in the early 1900's or late 1800's.

 

HUH?

 

They did some in the 80s and 2000 was the last one they have done at the moment that I can think of

 

Correct. The US stopped minting coins for Panama in 1983.

In 2000 the US minted a Leif Ericsson Millennium Commemorative Coin for Iceland. Not meant for circulation....Silver Proof bullion.

 

HUH? is for who?

 

I would say legal on the reservation not legal in us. I don't have a listing of all
the varieties that exist. If you do an ebay search for "Indian nation coins" you will see some of them. Check back occasionally and see different ones. good luck.

 

FYI, The U. S. Mint once minted for the Philippines Islands.

 

They did far more than that.

 

I know of the Philippines. But I don't have a COMPLETE list of all that the U. S. Mint minted for. If you do, name them.

 

Try doing a web search.

I was looking for the very same info recently and was able to find a complete list with dates, denominations, compositions, weights, etc. and was actually surprised how quickly it turned up.

 

PCGS even has a registry set for world coins made by the US mint which lists them

 

If the Indians had had anything to do with this set they would have called themselves the Lakota people. Sioux is a derivitive name given to them by the French which means enemy.

 

Really, I am not that interested in them. Just know of the Philippines. Bye, Bye for now.

 

If you weren't that interested, then why did you ask?

 

Just to see how smart you are, old man basketball player. I see you are not.

 

It was a US Territory, like Hawaii, so it wasn't a foreign country. The Manila Mint was also the only US Mint not on the North American continent.

 

We made money for several occupied countries in world war two. Belgium coins come to mind. Several commonwealth nation such as Netherlands East Indies. Don't know who all we printed paper money for but many countries bought currency from the American Bank Note Company. All are marked so easy to spot.