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Coin Details

Origin/Country: United States
Design Description: DOLLARS - SACAGAWEA, PROOF
Item Description: Maganese Brass $1 2015 W SACAGAWEA MOHAWK IRONWORKERS EARLY RELEASES
Full Grade: NGC SP 69 ENHANCED FINISH
Owner: Coin Hound65651

Set Details

Custom Sets: America and Canada
Box A
First Day of Issue, Early Releases and First Releases
My Tribute to the USA
Nightwolf8383
Sacagawea Set
Competitive Sets: Winter Wolf2   Score: 102
Research: NGC Coin Explorer NGC Coin Price Guide
NGC US Coin Census for Sacagawea Dollars (2000-Date)

Owner Comments:

At its peak in the late 1950s, there were 800 Mohawk ironworkers living in North Gowanus in a neighborhood nicknamed Little Kahnawake. They made up about 15 percent of ironworkers then. Today, they make up about 10 percent.

“Virtually every skyscraper … has been built by Mohawk and other Iroquois ironworkers including the new Time Warner building…Rockefeller Center, Empire State building, Chrysler, all these skyscrapers, virtually all the bridges,” said Robert Venables, a historian and former Director of Cornell University’s American Indian studies program.

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