Glory be, the government has been outwitted again! The US Mint has suspended its scheduled production of the Sacagawea dollar, and now says it will make it only for special collections. It has completely given up the idea that it would ever enter circulation and become a normal part of American monetary life. Thus does Sacagawea go the way of Susan B. Anthony and the Eisenhower dollar. The fiasco began five years ago when Congress first authorized the coin. It took 18 months of meetings, phonecalls, faxes, and emails just to decide on a design. When the thing was finally … Continue reading The Sacagawea Flop