1 Dollar Sacagawea Work Mohawk 2015

1 Dollar Sacagawea (The Indian), Work Mohawk. 2015

Sacagawea dollar (English Sacagawea dollar.) - One of the two types in circulation of coins in denominations of US $ 1 (second - Presidential dollar), which belong to the so-called golden dollars (English golden dollars.), Because they are not gold, but mimic the color of gold.

The coins are made of copper and coated with manganese brass, which gives it a golden color. Unlike most outstanding US coins is quite exposed coating patinatsii and thus may completely lose the golden color. At the same time it is this feature of the coin gives them "antique hue" and images Sakagavei with baby - volume and expressiveness.

Avers: portrait holding Sakagavei child, a girl from the Shoshone tribe that helped Lewis and Clark expedition. Above the inscription: Liberty (Liberty), left an inscription: In God We Trust (We believe in God), to the right: the year of issue and the mint mark.

Reverse: depicts a Native American from the Mohawk tribe to build a skyscraper in New York. At the top a semicircular inscription: «UNITED STATES OF AMERICA», and in the center - face value of "$ 1".

Edge: Smooth with inscription (* In God We Trust * E Pluribus Unum * year of issue and the stamp of the Mint).

Mohawk, Mohawk, Mohawk, Mohawk (self: ganengeha, "the people of Flint") - a tribe of North American Indians, the Confederated League of the Iroquois. The League of Mohawk - "keepers of the eastern door." They speak the language mohokskom Iroquois language family. Now Mohawk - the great nation of the Iroquois League, live in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec, as well as in the US state of New York, on the border with Canada. The current strength of more than 63 thousand people.

Release Date: 2015