The 2024 Native American $1 Coin is the newest US Mint release, released today, Jan. 29. Design honors the 1924 Indian Citizenship Act on the new dollar.
The U.S. Mint is releasing 250-coin boxes, 100-coin bags, and 25-coin dollar rolls. Each choice features Philadelphia or Denver Mint circulation-quality coins that have never been published.
A design that is placed on the reverse (tails side) of each new coin is a way to acknowledge the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924.
"On June 2, 1924, the Indian Citizenship Act was signed into law, granting U.S. citizenship to ‘all non-citizen Indians born within the territorial limits of the United States,’" the U.S. Mint says on their website regarding the coin's "The Act notably did not require American Indians to give up their tribal citizenship to become U.S. citizens, allowing individual Indian people to preserve their tribal identity and their right to communal tribal property."
U.S. Mint Medallic Artist Phebe Hemphill included an American Indian eagle staff, a symbol of respect, honor, and patriotism, on the reverse to illustrate the topic. It has an American flag to represent Native Americans' dual citizenship. The reverse reads UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, $1, and INDIAN CITIZENSHIP ACT OF 1924.
The coin's obverse (heads side) has Glenna Goodacre's design from all prior Native American $1 Coins. Sacagawea holds Jean Baptiste, her son. In God We Trust and LIBERTY are on the obverse.
Over the course of the past several years, the pricing points for the new dollar goods have remained same from what they were previously. The product limitations and initial household order limits are displayed below, along with the additional restrictions.
The series' coins were first minted for circulation as well as numismatic releases whilst they were still in circulation. On the other hand, this changed in 2012, when the United States Mint began making the coin exclusively for use in numismatic purchases.