2000-W 22kt Gold Sacagawea - The Last Gold Dollar
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Was just wondering if the gold Sac dollars will be sharing space with the 1933 Double Eagles and if they will be exhibited in roughly the same ways at the same frequency.
How many people here have seen these, besides TD that is? Just ran across his pic on the Small Dollars site.
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I resemble that remark.......
What did you think of the coins @CaptHenway? Did you get one of the commemorative cards?
Now that is a neat gold coin.... I wonder when the first 'wild' one will show up?
There must be one out there somewhere....Cheers, RickO
"The Mint had plans to strike these gold versions for collectors either with the One Dollar denomination or the Five Dollar denomination. After a public outcry, due to the Mint's lack of authority to arbitrarily strike these gold coins, the plan was abandoned."
Was there really a "public outcry"?.. find it hard to believe many knew about this,much less an outcry
I have never heard of the gold Sacagaweas. I actually think they are super cool! Would be interesting to know where this public outcry originated from. I'd express encouragement for gold issues similar to this for new series- would certainly be a buyer.
Yes there was, because at the time there was no legal authorization for the Mint to do this. It was seen as a ploy to separate collectors from their money.
Today, the law that allows the Mint to make gold Kennedy Half Dollars, Mercury Dimes. Standing Liberty Quarters and Walking Liberty Half Dollars would presumably authorize them.
I do have one of the cards somewhere, packed two moves ago.
They were well-made proofs.
Does that mean the Mint can sell the ones it has now? Or should they make more with current dates?
very cool coin.
Don't know the legality of that. They were illegal when struck, and I do not know if the law grandfathered in earlier pieces.
There's some inconsistent information about where these coins were struck. CoinFacts says West Point Mint but SmallDollars says Philadelphia Mint.
Which one is correct?
Calling @MWallace and @RogerB!
CoinFacts: Coins were struck at West Point Mint:
SmallDollars: Coins were struck at Philadelphia Mint:
Neat coins...I would have liked to have seen them.
K
Well, at they won't tarnish the way the ones that are made of junk metal do. Those coins a snoozers so far as I'm concerned.
This is one of the few modern coins I would love to own.
That there was a "public outcry" against the existence of 2000 gold Saca coins makes this hard to believe,
Saw a picture, or perhaps just an artist's conception, of the $5 reverse Sackie once, but cannot find it again,
The U.S. Mint had a beautiful display at the A.N.A. up in Milwaukee back in 2007/8 (Can't remember which yr) and displayed 12 of them. They are really nice!
Later, Paul.
They were struck at Philadelphia. See the next to last paragraph in the August 10, 2007 U. S. Mint press release here:
http://www.smalldollars.com/dollar/7-07pr.html
The "public outcry" wasn't so much that 39 were struck (12 extant), but that the Director of the Mint Phil Diehl arbitrarily decided that the mint would strike gold versions of the Sac$ to be sold to the public. He did not have the authority to do this. Congress determines what coin designs, metal content, denominations, etc. are produced. Most of the "public outcry" came from the numismatic community. The general population probably didn't know that the mint, i.e. Mr. Diehl, didn't have the authority to do this, and the vast majority of the general public that did know probably didn't care.
It would be so exciting to find one of these in the wild....However, it would have to be kept quiet or the gendarmes would be knocking at one's door.... How would one go about selling such a thing? Much like the elusive '64D Peace dollar.... a secret treasure. Cheers, RickO
Thanks for the confirmation!
The collected references on the site are a great way to have all this info in one place.
The press release is also still up on the US Mint website.
https://www.usmint.gov/news/press-releases/20070810-united-states-mint-displays-neverbeforeseen-gold-space-coins-in-milwaukee
PCGS should change their CoinFacts page facts. I wouldn't know who to contact.
I believe Ron Guth runs both CoinFacts and PCGSCoinFacts, but the earlier CoinFacts is no longer being updated.
Of interest, I just checked PCGSCoinFacts and it does have the correct information posted by Jaime Hernandez. Since CoinFacts is no longer being updated, it may be useful to retire it at some point.
http://www.pcgscoinfacts.com/Coin/Detail/508062
Good.