2005 Sacagawea In Circulation?

It is quite possible a few slipped out the door by accident or perhaps a collector cherry picked his/her rolls and spent the rest thus putting them into circulation. None the less it is rare to get a Sackie dated after 2001 in circulation.

Surely the Mint must produce and release an Annual Report that would state the mintages for circulation coins and for their various collector coins and sets.

This would then give figures for the dollar (what ever date) released each year or financial year.

Anyone know if this is the case and can provide figures?

Business Strike mintages in millions of coins

Year______P_______D__
2000____767.1___518.9
2001_____62.5____70.9
2002______3.9_____3.7
2003______3.1_____3.1
2004______2.7_____2.7
2005______2.5_____2.5
2006______2.8_____4.9

For the past three years:
http://www.usmint.gov/about_the_min...tion_figures

As you can see, the only years the Sac was minted for circulation were 2000 and 2001. The subsequent mintages were for US Mint Sets and rolls/bags for sale at the mint. If there was a 2005 in circulation, it almost certainly was put there by a collector and not the Fed.

BTW, the 06-D number looks suspicious. I don't know what accounts for the excess.

There are millions of the coins released for circulation, just no dates other than 2000 and 2001, the other dates of these coins were not released ,, they are included in mint sets and forsale in Rolls from the mint.

The ones found in circulation for 2005 were put there by a collector who for whatever reason spent them. or had them spent from his or her collection without their knowledge.

Rick

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Originally posted by Andrew289

What does he do with $300.00 worth of sacs each month?

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He hoards them and always has, I don't think you can really call him a collector because he just collects everything and wants as much as he can cram in his tri level house (believe me you would know what I was talking about if you saw the inside of his house). He has a large (and I mean LARGE) safe at his house and he has (I know of) 4 safe deposit boxes and various banks. he is just one of them older men that accumulate things (he is in his upper 80's) he has stuff he picked up off the ground when he was in Germany in the war (guns and German medals and coins) and he has always been that way to hear him talk about how he was when he was a kid. He has stacks and stacks of old movie posters in his attic that he used to get from the movie theater in town (actually the small town I live in now)each week. If something ever happens to him it will take years to get everything cleaned out of his house and even then you better take a second look because he is also one who trust's no one and hides stuff everywhere. I asked him to make me a treasure map and put it in one of his safe deposit boxes but he will not do it, he just says find what you can find when I'm gone, and if you cant find it, it wasn't meant to be yours

The 2005 was a good find.

I just completed my Sacagawea set, and had to buy all the coins except for the 2000 and 2001 issues. My set is now complete, including proofs, and it is one of my favorite collections.