I am very happy that those clouds have passed and thank you for being a good sport. Thanks Big Fred for putting that so eloquently. I don't think it is a wrong metal, such as a quarter blank planchet that was struck in place of a Sacagawea. It would be noticeably different in shape and appearance. The quarter size would be the most logical closest wrong planchet error to occur. I think the scratches you see are probably there from before the coin was plated. I have never seen somebody plate a coin but it must be easy enough. Here is a video that may be one way that this dollar found its fate.
Electroplating is cool. I have seen coins struck on the wrong planchet and this obviously isn't one of those. I was referring to like a special mint set or something.. Like I have seen Eisenhower dollars from the late 70s stuck on silver planchets, even though the coins produced for circulation were copper nickel clad. Maybe this is something like that? some sort of special edition maybe?
Only one special issue of golden dollars has ever occurred but it did not involve a compositional difference. The 5000 Sackies given to artist Glenna Goodacre in 2000 as payment for her winning design were given a special burnished finish.
Wasn't there something like five pure gold ones also minted? I think I remember reading about it and if I remember right they were sent up on the space shuttle or something like that can't remember for sure. John1
In 1999, the US Mint did strike 39 Sacagaweas on 22kt $10 GAE planchets, 27 were destroyed and 12 flew up on the Space Shuttle Columbia. I intentionally did not mention them because they are not really relevant to the discussion for the simple fact that all 12 have been remanded to the safety of Fort Knox and will never be owned in the public domain. Glenna Goodacre had ~3000 of her Sackies slabbed by ICG and sold them to collectors.
Plated, and you can buy them online. They plate the entire coin so it appears to be uniformly the same color, even around the edge. Not a fake, but certainly not an error.
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Thanks Big Fred for putting that so eloquently.
Posted 04/10/2012 1:26 pm
can't remember for sure.
