You can buy Sacagawea coins in various presentation types, including handsome display cases and exclusive Showpak^® holders. We also have colorized Native American coins. Whether you’re seeking the perfect gift or to expand your personal collection, our extensive selection of Sacagawea dollars and Native American dollar coins has you covered.

​​​​About the Sacagawea Coin

Launched in 2000, the Sacagawea dollar coin has an obverse honoring Sacagawea, the young Shoshone guide and interpreter who helped Lewis and Clark find a western route to the Pacific Ocean. She is depicted with her infant son, Jean Baptiste, who accompanied her on the expedition. Sacagawea dollars were originally intended to replace paper dollars, but instead become a favorite legal tender collectible.

​​Introduced with the U.S. Dollar Coin Act of 1997

President Bill Clinton signed the U.S. Dollar Coin Act of 1997 into law on December 1, 1997. No longer intended to replace the dollar bill, the new dollar coin was to be "golden in color, have a distinctive edge [and] have tactile and visual features that make the denomination of the coin readily discernible." Although sometimes called Sacagawea "gold" dollars, the coins were not struck in gold. Rather, their "golden" color comes from their manganese brass composition that includes copper, zinc, manganese and nickel.

The call for a new dollar coin design produced 120 submissions, and the winning motif for the obverse depicted Sacagawea and her son by artist Glenna Goodacre. The eagle in flight by U.S. Mint engraver Thomas D. Rogers, Sr. was selected for the reverse. The Sacagawea dollar was minted from 2000 to 2008.

​​Native American Dollars

In 2009, the U.S. Mint launched a one-year-only reverse design program for the Sacagawea dollar, which resulted in a numismatic name change to Native American dollars. Each reverse honors major Native American contributions to the Union. On these coins, the date, mint mark and the words e pluribus unum appear on the edge.

Issuing Mints

Sacagawea coins were issued for circulation by the Philadelphia ("P") and Denver ("D") Mints, while Proofs were struck by the San Francisco Mint. Circulating Sacagawea dollars in 2002, 2007 and 2008 were made available only from the U.S. Mint.

​​​​Special Issues

The Sacagawea dollar series saw several special issues. The reverses on an estimated 100 Sacagawea dollar coins were struck by Philadelphia with a prototype design featuring boldly detailed tail feathers for use in a promotion with the breakfast cereal Cheerios™. Obverse designer Glenna Goodacre received 5,000 Sacagawea coins struck on burnished planchets by polished dies that gave them a Prooflike finish. And Sacagawea dollars found in the Uncirculated Mint Sets of 2005-2010 were struck with Satin Finishes.