Will the Sacagawea dollar be snubbed again in 2009?

[Dave Allured]

The US Mint seemed very excited about the new Native American dollar
coins, the extension of the Sacagawea/Golden Dollar series. They were
the first circulating coins released in 2009, and targeted through the
Mint's direct ship program:

http://www.usmint.gov/pressroom/index.cfm?action=press_release&ID=970
http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/$1coin/?action=directShip

However, no trace of Native American dollars is found in new information
about 2009 coins just released by the Federal Reserve. All 14 of the
other new coin designs for 2009 were included in distribution
information:

http://www.frbservices.org/operations/currency/new_coin.html
http://www.frbservices.org/operations/currency/new_coin_presidential.html

Will the Federal Reserve continue its 8-year tradition of refusing to
help promote the Sacagawea/Golden Dollar coin series, and making new
coins of this series impossible to get through the US banking system?
Or iss this just an oversight, to be corrected in a few days? Will 2009
be the breakthrough year for the Sacagawea/Native American coin series?

--Dave

[Bruce Remick]

"Dave Allured" <nos...@nospam.com> wrote in message
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Like in prior years, it would be up to the merchants to start giving them
out in change. Otherwise it will be up to banks to force them on customers.
Dollar coin advocates can order and spend hundreds of them daily, but until
store cashiers quit putting any they receive aside while continuing to hand
out dollar bills, nothing will change. Unless of course the dollar bill is
discontinued. Soon.