Dubbed "America's Sculptor," Goodacre's fingers are behind such well-known works as the Vietnam Women's Memorial in Washington, D.C., and the
Sacagawea dollar coin, and gigantic pieces like the Irish Memorial in Philadelphia.
Citizens want nothing to do with the old Eisenhower manhole dollars, or more recently the
Sacagawea dollar pieces.
Together, the five of them make $30,471,500, give or take a
Sacagawea dollar. Beckett, Lester, Buchholz and Bard make $30 million of that, and Doubront makes the rest, give or take a few
Sacagawea dollars.
Anthony dollar (honoring the women's suffrage leader) and the
Sacagawea dollar (for the Native American woman who helped Lewis and Clark during their 1804 transcontinental expedition) flopped, Congress tried again with a series of presidential coins.
[Since 2000, a
Sacagawea dollar coin has been minted in the U.S.]
1 Who is Sacagawea, who features on the
Sacagawea dollar, a US dollar coin which has been minted every year since 2000?
From the origin of legal tender, to the role currency has played throughout history, to why some currency and coinage (such as the
Sacagawea dollar and the two-dollar bill) seems to disappear after being released while other forms stay, to the relative advantages of coins vs.
Mint has issued 7.7 million
Sacagawea dollar coins so far in 2006, while releasing 2.5 billion 25-cent pieces through its 50 State Quarters program.
Moreover, we demonstrated that coin denominations ranging from a
Sacagawea dollar to a penny could easily be distinguished by SRI (Fig.
The mint expects that within the first 3 months of release, demand for the
Sacagawea dollar will reach more than half a billion coins, says Diehl.
The sculptor Glenna Goodacre is best known for the Vietnam Women's Memorial (1993) in Washington, D.C., and for her design of the
Sacagawea dollar coin.
The gold-colored coin has the back of a new
Sacagawea dollar, but the front of a quarter.