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The Native American dollar coins are not new; they've been minted since 2000. They're also brass, not gold.

The image is a representation of Sacajawea, a Shoshone woman who helped Lewis and Clark during their great expedition of 1803-1805. Because of that the coins are also known as Sacajawea dollars.

There are no known pictures of Sacajawea so the coin's designer used a modern Native American college student as her model.

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