United States 1 Dollar "Native American Dollar", 2019
American Indians in the Space Program
Information
Country
United States
Currency
Dollar
(1785 – 9999)
Coin type
Non-circulating coin
Denomination
1 Dollar
Year
2019
Ruler
Federal republic
(1776–9999)
Composition
Manganese brass clad copper
Shape
Round
Alignment
Coin alignment ↑↓
Technique
Milled
Weight (g)
8.1
Diameter (mm)
26.49
Thickness (mm)
2
Description
1 Dollar from United States. Issued in 2019. Struck in Manganese brass clad copper. Measures 26.49 mm and weighs 8.1 g.
- Obverse
- Sacagawea carrying her infant son, Jean Baptiste.
- Reverse
- Mary Golda Ross writing calculations. In the background, an Atlas-Agena rocket launches into space, with an equation inscribed in its cloud. The equation, denoting the energy it takes to leave Earth and reach the orbit of a distant planet, represents her important contributions to the space program. An astronaut, symbolic of Native American astronauts, including John Herrington, conducts a spacewalk above. A group of stars in the field behind indicates outer space.
- Edge
- Lettered
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