FREE: 2004 Sacagawea Dollar Coin Philadelphia Mint Circulated

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(The photo is a stock photo from the web) The coin I have is a 2004 Philadelphia Mint in very good circulated condition that I got in change from the grocery store.

The Sacagawea Golden Dollar:
The Sacagawea Golden Dollar, (obverse designed by Glenna Goodacre), was first issued in 2000 as a replacement for the ill-received Susan B. Anthony dollar coin. The Sacagawea coin depicts the young Shoshone woman with her infant son, Jean-Baptiste, slung on her back. Goodacre's primary model for the coin was Randy'L Teton, a 22-year old Idaho Shoshone woman living in New Mexico at the time.
The metallic composition of the coin is complex: a pure copper core is clad with layers of metallurgically bonded outer layers of manganese brass. It weighs 8.1 grams and has a diameter of 26.5 mm.


Of all the subjects ever portrayed on American coins, Sacagawea is one of the most interesting. She was kidnapped around the age of 10 or 11, sold into slavery a few years later, and purchased by a French fur trader by the time she was 14 to serve as his "wife." 15 years old and pregnant, she began an overland journey of thousands of miles when the fur trader was hired as a guide for the Lewis and Clark Expedition. (Her "husband" was actually hired on the condition that he bring Sacagawea along to interpret Native American languages, of which she knew several.)

It turns out that Sacagawea's presence on the Lewis and Clark Expedition was very likely a key factor in its overall success. William Clark, in his Journals, stated that there was no reward sufficient to repay this woman for her contribution to the Expedition. He held Sacagawea in such high esteem that when she died at the age of 25, he adopted her children.


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