2015-S Mohawk Ironworker Native American Dollar Proof

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes ….
 

The 2015 entry within the Native American Greenback sequence is a welcome commemoration of a long-running and still-vital custom of the Mohawk folks. One of many 5 founding tribes of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy), the Kanienʼkehá:ka (Mohawk) reside primarily within the northern a part of New York State and neighboring areas of Canada. For nearly two centuries, expert Mohawk laborers have labored on building tasks at anxiety-inducing heights and earned a fame for masterful metal and ironwork. Within the Twenties and ’30s, Mohawk ironworkers moved to New York Metropolis and constructed such iconic American landmarks because the Empire State Constructing, the Chrysler Constructing, and the George Washington Bridge. Within the Nineteen Seventies, Mohawk ironworkers constructed the World Commerce Middle.

The reverse of the 2015-S Native American – Mohawk Ironworkers Greenback, designed by United States Mint Inventive Infusion Program (AIP) artist Ronald D. Sanders and sculpted by Mint Medallic Artist Phebe Hemphill, presents a fisheye lens view of town as seen from the staggering heights the Mohawk navigate each day. The design’s creation of depth of area on the small greenback canvas is paying homage to different imaginative and award-winning options to troublesome themes imposed on Mint artists.

Offered solely to collectors by way of the United States Mint’s ordering web site, the Proof 2015 Native American Greenback was struck on the San Francisco Mint with a mintage of simply over a million items. An Enhanced Uncirculated model of the coin was struck on the West Level Mint and made accessible within the 2015 American $1 Coin and Foreign money Set.

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2015-S Mohawk Ironworker Native American Greenback Proof Market Knowledge and Noteworthy Specimens

Since ultra-modern cash are typically uniform in high quality and handled like commodities, they often lack the significant historical past of public sale appearances that elite basic U.S. cash have. Due to this fact, we study websites like eBay to get a really feel for the up to date marketplace for these points (although truthfully, eBay is the one one price ).

A handful of excellent and near-perfect specimens licensed by PCGS and NGC have bought on the platform in current months, with costs between $15 and $50 typically decided by the sellers and the “Purchase It Now” choice. The record under presents public sale data accessible on eBay as of this replace in mid-January 2025 (eBay takes down public sale heaps after three months).

Uncertified (“uncooked“) examples with sufficient pictures have bought on eBay within the final couple months for between $5 and $8.

High Inhabitants: PCGS PR70DCAM (984, 1/2025), NGC PF70 (2,832, 1/2025), and CAC PR69 (3, 1/2025).

• NGC PF70UCAM: eBay, January 8, 2025, Lot 364631706355 – Listed at $39.95 or Finest Provide. Sacagawea (Giant) label for bulk submissions (#1370).
• PCGS PR70DCAM: eBay, January 7, 2025, Lot 266987328600 – Listed at $34.00, Finest Provide Accepted.
• NGC PF70UCAM #4262534-017: eBay, December 31, 2024, Lot 196695723942 – Listed at $50.00 or Finest Provide. Sacagawea (Small) label (#130; retired).
• PCGS PR70DCAM: eBay, December 19, 2024, Lot 135070132080 – Listed at $42.49 with “Purchase It Now” choice.
• NGC PF70UCAM: eBay, December 17, 2024, Lot 296574765803 – Listed at $39.95 or Finest Provide. Sacagawea (Small) label (#130; retired).
• NGC PF70UCAM: eBay, November 26, 2024, Lot 375800424086 – $15.50. Seven bids.
• NGC PF70UCAM: eBay, November 13, 2024, Lot 135351026610 – $26.55. 12 bids.
• NGC PF70UCAM: eBay, November 12, 2024, Lot 126761881045 – $43.00. 19 bids. Sacagawea (Giant) label for bulk submissions (#1370).
• NGC PF70UCAM: eBay, November 12, 2024, Lot 326322921117 – Listed at $19.99. Sacagawea (Small) label (#130; retired).
• NGC PF70UCAM: eBay, October 31, 2024, Lot 205055676878 – $21.00. One bid.

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Design

Obverse:

Artist Glenna Goodacre’s portrait of Sacagawea is consultant of the Corps of Discovery explorer and her youngster Jean Baptiste Charbonneau. As no up to date portraits of Sacagawea exist, Goodacre’s effigy is predicated on the likeness of then-23-year-old Shoshone mannequin Randy’L He-dow Teton (born 1976). On the coin, Sacagawea’s physique faces proper, her head turned two-thirds of the best way to the facet, eyes making direct contact with the viewer. Child Jean is asleep in a papoose. Wrapping across the prime of the coin is the phrase LIBERTY. The motto IN GOD WE TRUST is inscribed in small letters to the left of Sacagawea. Glenna Goodacre’s initials gg are incused on the seven o’clock place, adjoining to the rim.

Reverse:

A Mohawk building employee stands excessive above the New York Metropolis skyline. His proper arm extends to seize and information a metal beam whereas his left hand grips the “porthole” that frames the coin’s design. A fisheye take a look at the encircling buildings and water options successfully communicates a way of peak and scale. The employee’s proper foot stands atop a beam, whereby the incuse inscription MOHAWK IRONWORKERS seems. On the 4 and eight o’clock positions are two bolts. The legend UNITED STATES OF AMERICA wraps across the prime of the design. The worth of the denomination is represented as $1 and seems within the skyline to the left of the Empire State Constructing.

Edge:

Lettering on the sting of the 2015-S Mohawk Ironworker Native American Greenback Proof coin options the date 2015, the S mintmark for the San Francisco Mint, and the motto E PLURIBUS UNUM.

Designers

Glenda Goodacre’s design of Native American explorer Sacagawea was chosen after a nationwide design contest (View Designer’s Profile).

Designer Phebe Hemphill joined the U.S. Mint in 2006, and since that point has turn out to be one of many nation’s most prolific coin designers (View Designer’s Profile).

Artist Ronald D. Sanders joined the Mint’s design employees by way of the Mint’s Inventive Infusion Program (View Designer’s Profile).

2015-S Mohawk Ironworker Native American Greenback Proof Coin Specs

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Be taught in regards to the 2015-P and 2015-D Native American – Mohawk Ironworker’s {Dollars} right here

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