This is it, folks, the big one with the tiny mintage.

In the early part of 2002, the Mint suspended production of the Sacagawea Dollar Coin until an end-of-fiscal-year review. It is unclear at this time (this page is being written in mid-August, 2002) whether or not production will resume at all this year. It may well be that they will not make any more of these. When production ceased in spring, the Mint in Philadelphia had produced something like 2,240,000 of the 2002 "P" Dollar Coins. Both mints (Philadelphia and Denver) together made less than 5,000,000 total. The mintages for 2001 were about 1 billion (total) and about 1.2 billion (total) for the year 2000.

I bought a bag full of them, and I paid more than face value for them. It cost me US$2,190 to get them directly from the Mint. I've also had other expenses on this project, so I cannot sell these coins for US$1.10 each and see a profit.

The coins have arrived and I have repackaged them into tubes (twenty coins per tube). The tubes are DuraClear brand Unbreakable Coin Tubes.

I have not sorted or graded these coins and I am not going to. I merely counted them into stacks of twenty coins and then slid the stacks into their tubes. As a precaution against fingerprint stains, I did wear white gloves while repackaging these coins.

I want you to understand that these coins are sold on an "as-is" basis, without any claim as to what grade the coins are. You may get coins that are bright, shiny and perfect; you might get coins that are nicked, scratched and stained; or you might get coins with mint errors on them. You may get a mixture of good and bad. I'm not holding back the best of them, nor am I holding back the worst of them. What you get will be influenced by "the luck of the draw", just the same as what I will end up with. I will not accept returns based upon claims of inadequate quality, because I am making no claim about the quality of this product.

I have taken reasonable precautions against damage to these coins, but some things are beyond my control. Many (or maybe even most) of the coins that I've repackaged have some spotting, as though they were rinsed in a tainted solution of some sort. I've noticed the same problem in the Dollar Coins that are rolled in paper. Some of the coins are magnificent, with no trace of spotting.

For more information, please send me e-mail: thipdar