Coin and Paper Money Collecting/Sacajawea coin

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Expert: - 5/8/2010


Question
I have collected Sacajawea dollars off and on for several years. I was recently looking at the the coins I have and noticed that one does not have the year or the mint designation on the front. I also does not have the eagle flying on the back but rather the image of a woman harvesting, corn maybe? It also does not say e pluribas unum or have one dollar spelled out but does have $1 at the bottom of the image.
Is this a clever forgery or possibly a mistake, and of course is it worth anything?
Thanks for any help you can give!

Answer

Hi Angeleen,
This is one of the newest dollars, the 2009. This is the normal design for this coin, it's definitely a big shift from the previous design. The lack of a date is something you often see on commemorative coins from other countries. This is one of the few US coins that would be designated ND (2009) in a coin book, the ND standing for "no date" and the actual date of production in the parenthesis.
Thanks for the question! =)

Dmitry Livshits

Expertise

My specialty is world coins from the 18th to 20th centuries, primarily non-US foreign coins and related areas such as errors and exonumia (tokens, medals, etc.). I can answer questions relating to identification, grading, selling, preservation and evaluation of such items. In addition to catalog value, I can give you the practical market value and trends for specific types of coins. I will also take questions regarding counterfeits (both modern and antique) and on how to identify them. I am NOT knowledgeable in paper money/banknotes, ancient or "shipwreck" coins. Thank you.

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Collector of world coins since early childhood. Access to a variety of auction records and reference material. You can also find me on Facebook.

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A.S. in Psychology (2006), B.A. in Forensic Psychology (2008), M.A. in Forensic Psychology (2011).

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