2018 D Sacagawea Proof Like

I make no claim to being an expert. However, I do know how to read. <g>

We bought a bag of 100 of the "P" variety directly from the mint (selected "P" on the basis of its significantly lower mintage numbers posted on the mint's website).

In addition to having been able to read the mintage numbers, <g> I was also able to read that these are NIFC coins which will NOT be released into circulation.

So, while they ARE legal tender, and CAN be used as "spending money" one would need to be brain-dead, dishonest (i.e., a coin thief), or in the utter depths of economic desperation to spend them, since the only way to acquire them is to pay above face value from the mint.

So while it is theoretically possible to find these in circulation (I daresay inevitable), it is too much of a stretch to believe that the mint is "coin roll hunting" in order to locate the ones they sell in mint bags and rolls. (And even if in some alternate Mad Magazine universe, they DID do so, then where would THOSE coins have originated? :)

This was the best I could do, the picture does not do the coin justice, can't figure out how to get a picture that actually shows the mirror like image it actually is.....I'm not a great coin photographer.

This isn't a great picture either, took it from my phone, but it gives you a better idea on how this coin really looks with the mirror like finish.

I'm just wanting to know if anyone else received this set and what their Thorpe D buck looks like. The last picture looked better and then when I posted it, it enlarged and got all blurry. Who knows I might try again. It is no big deal, probably isn't anything special, it just doesn't look like a typical uncirculated coin. It looks like those reverse proof Presidential coins. The Thorpe figures on the reverse look very similar to those reverse proof obverse of the Presidential bucks.

I just received a P & D "cut" 2018 Jefferson nickel from the mint set and I am almost amazed at how much better they look than in previous years. Yet they still have some minor contact marks.

Well, if it helps any, my "D" part of the set also looks just a bit more 'proofy' than the "P" coins.

Not much of a difference, but the "D" dollar does have more of a silver-ish hue than the "P". By no means do the Philly coins look bad in any way, but you are right about the slight difference.


Mine are still in the plastic cards. Is it possible the difference is due to a variance of the plastic and not the coins? I also have this year's dollar coins from Mint rolls and they ("P" & "D") are similar.


On the other hand, many of the Denver quarters I've picked up in change the past year or two always seem a little nicer (shinier/cameo) than any Philadelphia coins I find.

A coin can be circulatING (minted as a ciruclating coin) but not be ciruculatED.