sacagawea

They've never released their own $1 coin into general circulation – their ubiquitous Sacagawea dollars are minted in the US.

All the novelty $1 coins since the Sacagawea offer the potential for a gradual shift too.

They would plan campsites to suit Sacagawea so she could get her 'potos' (sp?) which were the plants she cooked for herself?

Around the same time I was working as a cashier when a woman came in with a Sacagawea dollar.

Heck, how often have you seen a Sacagawea in the wild, considering there were probably about 2+ billion of them minted by now?

Found a Sacagawea dollar in one of my cupholders just the other day, took me a hot minute to recognize what it even was.

To give an example of metaphor: many Native American tribes besides the Lemhi Shoshone have stories that claim Sacagawea as one of their own.

Anthony dollars from the early 80s with the currently circulating Sacagawea dollars?

The NYC train and subway ticket machines have dispensed $1 Sacagawea coins as change for as long as I've used them.

We give our kids gold Sacagawea dollar coins under their pillows.

Since Sacagawea dollars never took off (and therefore aren't always accepted as currency everywhere, and their presence would therefore be more traceable), that means that coins like quarters are the most untraceable US currency.

I forgot about the Sacagawea dollar which did solve the fact that the Susan B Anthony coins were too much like quarters.

[0] “Robinson had originally planned to include American frontiersmen like Lewis and Clark and Native Americans, including Sacagawea.

My most upvoted reddit comment ever was when I posted a "Sacagawea selfie"...

And when they talked to the chief for that crucial negotiation, they'd realized he was related to Sacagawea...

The only time I ever even slightly thought about physical banks was when I started wanting ‎Sacagawea dollars to pay at neighborhood lemonade stands (I used to love getting Kennedy half-dollars at my childhood stand, but inflation's a bitch...).

The irony of all of this is of course not only that effectively no one has used any of the $1 coins since the introduction of the Sacagawea, when their value had basically halved since then, just based on official inflation fraud numbers; so it is unlikely anyone will ever see these coins either, unless you make a deliberate point to acquire and use them.