News Line
01-17-2009, 09:09 AM
United States Mint Shows Off New Native American $1 Coin at Opening of National Museum of American Indian Multicultural Festival
01-16-2009 10:00 PM
http://www.usmint.gov/images/pressroom/2009NativeAmerican.jpg WASHINGTON - Hundreds of spectators in the Potomac Atrium of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) eagerly watched today as United States Mint Director Ed Moy and NMAI Director Kevin Gover performed a ceremonial pour of newly minted 2009 Native American $1 Coins from an authentic handcrafted Native American basket. The presentation of this new $1 coin was part of the opening activities for NMAI's three-day festival entitled, "Out of Many: A Multicultural Festival of Music, Dance and Story."
More... ( http://www.usmint.gov/pressroom/index.cfm?action=press_release&ID=982 )
01-16-2009 10:00 PM
http://www.usmint.gov/images/pressroom/2009NativeAmerican.jpg WASHINGTON - Hundreds of spectators in the Potomac Atrium of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) eagerly watched today as United States Mint Director Ed Moy and NMAI Director Kevin Gover performed a ceremonial pour of newly minted 2009 Native American $1 Coins from an authentic handcrafted Native American basket. The presentation of this new $1 coin was part of the opening activities for NMAI's three-day festival entitled, "Out of Many: A Multicultural Festival of Music, Dance and Story."
More... ( http://www.usmint.gov/pressroom/index.cfm?action=press_release&ID=982 )