24K Gold Plated Native American Dollar - 2017

Starting in 2009, the Sacagawea Dollar became the Native American Dollar, with each year’s coin featuring a different reverse design honoring Native American culture and history. 

The 2017 reverse design depicts a profile of Sequoyah creating the original characters for the Cherokee alphabet. Sequoyah is the man who created the written language for the Cherokee Nation.  It shows a turbaned Sequoyah producing the new “Cherokee Syllabary” with a long quill pen as well as the inventor’s name in his newly created lettering.

This coin is a special limited edition that is richly plated in pure 24 karat gold. Just a tiny fraction of the 2017 coins have been set aside for this gold-plated edition. Gold-layered coins are not available from the U.S. Mint but only through special offers like this.

The obverse is Sacagawea, the Native American guide who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition on their quest to find a route to the Pacific Ocean.  Sacagawea was the first identifiable Native American to be featured on a circulating U.S. coin.