Sacagawea dollar update

This is an update to this post.

H.R. 2358 is now law and will start in 2009. A few things that are odd about this. To bring these new Sacagawea dollars into some sort of uniform manufacturing with the Presidential dollars, the date, mint mark, E Pluribus Unum and In God We Trust were all to be moved to the edge. With the passage of H.R. 2764 (and it has passed the Senate as well), In God We Trust has been ordered back onto the obverse/reverse of the coin. I'll speak on H.R. 2764 in another post soon but as I have mentioned previously, it still maddens me that such hypocrisy still gets by in our legislature. Having been passed by a voice vote we won't know if the co-sponsors of the original H.R. 2510 (to put IGWT back onto the obverse/reverse) voted for it but it honestly wouldn't surprise me.

But its come true, we'll have annually changing reverses for the Sacagawea dollars, the presidential dollars as well as dollar bills. Of course, all these coin programs are going to have people flocking to the use of coins... right.