The 2000 Sacagawea dollar – Washington quarter mule is an

error coin Mint-made errors occur when coins are made incorrectly at the mint (facility), mint, including anything that happens to the coin up until the completion of the minting process. Mint error coins can be the result of deterioration of the minting ...

featuring the obverse of a Washington quarter (specifically a 50 State quarter) and the reverse of a

Sacagawea dollar The Sacagawea dollar (also known as the "golden dollar") is a United States dollar coin introduced in 2000, but subsequently minted only for niche circulation from 2002 onward. The coin generally failed to meet consumer and business demands b ...

struck on a gold-colored dollar coin

planchet A planchet is a round metal disk that is ready to be struck as a coin. An older word for planchet is flan. They are also referred to as blanks. History The preparation of the flan or planchet has varied over the years. In ancient times, the ...

. It is one of the first known authentic mule coins to be released into circulation by the

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History

Mule coins were deliberately produced by US Mint employees for sale to coin collectors in the mid-1800s. However, no authentic (accidental) mules of United States currency were known to exist. This changed in the 1990s, when a

Lincoln cent The Lincoln cent (sometimes called the Lincoln penny) is a one-cent coin that has been struck by the United States Mint every year since 1909. The obverse and reverse, obverse, or heads, side was designed by Victor David Brenner, as was the origi ...

(dated 1993-D) with the reverse of a Roosevelt dime were discovered. In 2000, Frank Wallis of Arkansas discovered a Sacagawea dollar with the obverse of a Washington quarter.

List of known coins

As of September 2019, 19 examples have been confirmed, 16 of which are owned by a coin collector named Tommy Bolack. Three different die pairs have been identified among the examples.

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References

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