Chase's Misc Dollar Coins
2013-S Sacagawea

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Coin Details

Origin/Country: United States
Design Description: DOLLARS - SACAGAWEA, PROOF
Item Description: $1 2013 S SACAGAWEA TREATY WITH THE DELAWARES
Full Grade: NGC PF 69 ULTRA CAMEO
Owner: T S Chase

Set Details

Custom Sets: Chase's Misc Dollar Coins
Competitive Sets: This coin is not competing in any sets.
Research: NGC Coin Explorer NGC Coin Price Guide
NGC US Coin Census for Sacagawea Dollars (2000-Date)

Owner Comments:

Thirteen stars, the year, mintmark, and the words E PLURIBUS UNUM are inscribed into the edge.

The obverse features the series’ traditional depiction of Sacagawea and her son.

The reverse commemorates the treaty with the Delaware Indians. It features a turkey, wolf, and turtle, which are animal symbols of the clans of the Delaware tribe. It’s really a beautiful coin!

The theme of the coin - - the treaty with the Delaware - - is sort of weird to me, however.

The treaty was the first formal treaty between the new United States and a Native American tribe. It was signed on September 17, 1778 at Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania - - Fort Pitt is present day Pittsburg. Briefly, the treaty was an alliance between the US and the Delaware against the British. In it the Americans also promised to recognize the tribe as a sovereign nation and guaranteed their territorial rights. However, within about a year, the US had failed to follow through and the Delaware ended up supporting the British . . .

Seems to me we're commemorating our unfaithfulness to our Native American peoples? Just sayin . . .

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