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Posted 01/04/2007 09:01 am
If I remember correctly there were actually over 30 struck and a dozen were flown on a space shuttle mission and the rest melted down. The news release concerning the gold dollars on board the shuttle set Congressinal heads spinning as the Mint stepped overboard without their approval to strike gold Sacagawea dollars. Needless to say the program was immediately halted and the coins were moved to a U.S. vault (West Point I believe) after a few showings. One may have gone to the Smithsonian but the rest have been confiscated, so to speak, by the United States government and are NOT property of the U.S. Mint. There must have been a ton of behind the scenes finger slapping on this one!!!
The Goodacre Sacks, with the special burnish in my opinion are nothing more than hype and I would not pay the price for a coin that WAS NOT RELEASED into circulation. My current collecting policy, regarding my collecting habits, is "if it is not made available to the general public in one form or another it is NOT an official U.S. released coin" and our collecting albums should dictate what is offically released and what is not. I have ALL the Sacagawea dollars that have been made available to the general public so I have a COMPLETE set! While the Cheerios dollar would be great it is not a member of this set as it was a limited release arranged through a private company to hype the new dollars and the government didn't announce until much later, and then only after they were backed into a corner, that the dies were changed for business strike coins AFTER the Cheerio's dollars were struck for that limited program. The sad part is the mere fact most of the Cheerios dollars were spent in one way or another so no one knows where most of them are today! Rotting in a bank vault somewhere?
The Goodacre Sacks, with the special burnish in my opinion are nothing more than hype and I would not pay the price for a coin that WAS NOT RELEASED into circulation. My current collecting policy, regarding my collecting habits, is "if it is not made available to the general public in one form or another it is NOT an official U.S. released coin" and our collecting albums should dictate what is offically released and what is not. I have ALL the Sacagawea dollars that have been made available to the general public so I have a COMPLETE set! While the Cheerios dollar would be great it is not a member of this set as it was a limited release arranged through a private company to hype the new dollars and the government didn't announce until much later, and then only after they were backed into a corner, that the dies were changed for business strike coins AFTER the Cheerio's dollars were struck for that limited program. The sad part is the mere fact most of the Cheerios dollars were spent in one way or another so no one knows where most of them are today! Rotting in a bank vault somewhere?
