Despre o nouă monedă comemorativă americană - 28.04.2022

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The Native American Dollar or Dollar of the Native Americans, is one of the most collected coins worldwide. Very attractive designs, together with very easy and affordable pieces to obtain, are the secret of the success of this collection of coins.

In 2009, the United States Mint began minting and issuing these coins that highlight the significant contributions of Native American and Indian tribes to the history and development of the United States.

Every year I usually present the design that will present the current year's coin once it is decided, but this year we are going to go a little further back to find out the person to whom it will be dedicated, and the different sketches that are candidates for finally be represented on this $1 coin.

In 2023 the coin will be dedicated to the American dancer, Maria Tallchief (1925-2013), considered the first great dancer of the United States. She was the first Native American (Osage Nation) to hold that rank. She rose to prominence as the first diva of the New York City Ballet and helped found the Chicago Ballet. In 1953, the President of the United States, Dwight Eisenhower, declared her Woman of the Year.

There are seven designs that were presented as candidates to a committee of experts, among which they had to choose the design that they recommend as suitable to be represented on the coin.

I leave you in the first place the design that has been recommended, which only remains to be endorsed by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. Normally, there are usually no surprises and the design recommended by the experts is usually approved.

The recommended layout shows five representative figures of Native American dancers with Tallchief in the foreground.

Here are the other six. They are all precious and any of them would be perfect on a coin.

 

By the way, next year one of the quarters in the American Women Quarters series will also be dedicated to Maria Tallchief.

Common obverse of the entire series of Native American Dollar coins

 

 

The obverse, common to this entire series of US one dollar coins, shows Sacagawea and her son Jean Baptiste. This indigenous woman from the Shoshone tribe accompanied and guided one of the most important reconnaissance expeditions of the United States territory. The face on the coin reproduces the face of a modern-day Shoshone woman named Randy'L He-dow Teton, as no image of Sacagawea exists.

The year of minting, the mint mark and the inscription “E PLURIBUS UNUM” (Out of many, one) are engraved on the edge of the coin.

Characteristics of the coin

Face value: 1 dollar
Composition: Copper, Nickel and Zinc
Diameter: 26.5 mm
Weight: 8.1 g

 

 

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