2010 Native American $1 Coin

2010 Native American $1 Coin (Obverse Side) - Click to Enlarge

The 2010 Native American $1 Coin features a new reverse design as dictated by the law that authorized it.

According to Public Law 110-82, a design depicting the contributions Native American have made to the development of the United States is to featured on the reverse annually. This theme of Native American influence is to be used as long as the Presidential Dollars are being struck.

"Government - The Great Tree of Peace" was chosen as the concept for 2010 and shows a group of arrows bound together within a Hiawatha Belt. The belt symbolizes the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy) which was a diplomatic and political structure used by the Native Americans for centuries in the New York area.

Proof and uncirculated versions of the Native American coin are also available.

Native American $1 Coin Design

2010 Native American $1 Coin (Reverse Side) - Click to Enlarge

Obverse design: The obverse of the Native American $1 Coin was designed by Glenda Goodacre and shows a portrait of the famous Sacagawea carrying her infant Jean Baptiste Charbonneau on her back. From the Shoshone tribe, Sacagawea and her child accompanied explorers Lewis and Clark on their expedition through the midwest and pacific northwest of the United States. Also seen are the inscriptions "LIBERTY" and "IN GOD WE TRUST."

Reverse design: "Government - The Great Tree of Peace" is the theme for the reverse of the 2010 Native American coin. It shows a Hiawatha Belt with five arrows bound together within it. The inscriptions "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" and "$1" are seen as well. It was designed by Thomas Cleveland and sculpted by Charles L. Vickers.

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