1999 Dollar Pattern - J-2188

Coin Details

Description

A dollar pattern from 1999 bearing the Judd J-2188 designation, representing another design or composition explored during the Sacagawea dollar development program. The competition for the new dollar coin design attracted enormous public interest and generated multiple prototype designs, each struck as pattern coins for evaluation by the Dollar Coin Design Advisory Committee, the Commission of Fine Arts, and senior Mint officials. J-2188 may represent an alternative obverse design by a Mint engraver or outside artist, a different composition variant of the golden-colored manganese brass alloy that was selected for production, or a variation in edge treatment or planchet dimensions. The Sacagawea dollar program tested numerous compositional options before settling on the distinctive manganese brass clad composition (77% copper, 12% zinc, 7% manganese, 4% nickel) that gives the coin its characteristic golden color. Each Judd-numbered pattern from this program documents a specific configuration that was considered and evaluated as part of one of the most consequential coin design competitions of the late twentieth century.

Rarity Notes

R-8 (Extremely Rare). Individual Judd-numbered patterns from the 1999 dollar development program are very scarce.

Cross References

Judd J-2188