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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 473048, member: 4381&quot;]Clip from this article:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.smalldollars.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.smalldollars.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.smalldollars.com/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>--------------</p><p><br /></p><p>In the early 1990&#039;s, discussion of striking a new small size dollar coin was begun. This time government officials were armed with the knowledge of the mistakes of the Anthony Dollar. Discussions centered on striking a new small size dollar coin that would be golden in color and have a distinctive edge so that it could be easily distinguished from the quarter dollar. The striking of a new small size dollar at that time was not to be. Besides the queasiness of the mint to venture into another failed dollar coin, there was one other major problem. That is, more than a decade after the Anthony Dollar was discontinued, there were still millions of them in Federal Reserve vaults.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the late 1990&#039;s the supply of Anthony Dollars was finally dwindling down. After congressional and public hearings, it was decided that a new small size dollar coin with a plain edge and golden in color would be struck in 2000. The obverse would have the likeness of Sacagawea, the Shoshone Indian girl that helped guide Lewis and Clark through the northwest on their exploratory expedition of the Louisiana Purchase. In the mean time, the Anthony Dollar supply was decreasing so quickly that the mint struck 1999 dated Anthony Dollars to fill the need for a dollar coin until the Sacagawea Dollar could be struck and placed into circulation.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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