Comments on: John Herrington, First Native American in Space, Will Autograph NGC Labels https://www.coinnews.net/2019/09/06/john-herrington-first-native-american-in-space-will-autograph-ngc-labels/ CoinNews delivers the latest World and US coin news Wed, 09 Oct 2019 00:19:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: Eric Carlson https://www.coinnews.net/2019/09/06/john-herrington-first-native-american-in-space-will-autograph-ngc-labels/#comment-470463 Wed, 09 Oct 2019 00:19:27 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=72691#comment-470463 Anyone seen these for sale yet? And if so where?

]]> By: Seth Riesling https://www.coinnews.net/2019/09/06/john-herrington-first-native-american-in-space-will-autograph-ngc-labels/#comment-465749 Fri, 06 Sep 2019 11:44:13 +0000 http://www.coinnews.net/?p=72691#comment-465749 This press release from NGC has at least two errors in it. The coin in the photo is NOT a Sacagawea $1 coin as stated on the slab label – it is a Native American $1 coin. The press release states that the Sacagawea $1 coin has been struck since 2000 – but it was only struck from 2000 to 2008. Starting in 2009, the Mint changed the official name of the coin to Native American $1 coin with a different reverse design each year. The Sacagawea $1 coins had the same reverse design every year from 2000-2008. Also, John Herrington is not pictured on the coin as stated, as no living person can be depicted on U.S. legal tender coins without congressional approval (and that only happened once since the recent “modern” period of U.S. Mint coins on the Special Olympics commemorative $1 silver coin depicting Eunice Kennedy Schriver, who was alive at the time the coin was released). The astronaut in the space suit is simply representative of all Native Americans who have participated in the U.S. space program over the decades.

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