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Sacagawea dollars: the golden dollar that is not gold
Sacagawea dollars are manganese-brass clad, not gold. 2000 on. Cheerios dollars and a few varieties are collected. A jar of them is face value.
A Sacagawea dollar looks gold. It is not gold. It is a manganese-brass clad dollar, first struck for circulation in 2000. Sacagawea and her child are on the face. An eagle was on the back at first. Later years use other reverses.
It is not an Ike. It is not a Susan B. Anthony. It is not a Presidential dollar. Modern dollars.
What a shop pays
A jar of circulated Sacagaweas is face. We will count them. We will not weigh them as gold. Face-value jars.
Proofs and a few varieties (the 2000 “Cheerios” dollar with the enhanced tail feathers, some wounded-eagle pieces) are collected. Those are not the cup in the junk drawer.
Color
They tone, spot, and look dirty. That is the alloy. It is not gold plate wearing off. Do not polish them. Don’t clean.
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