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A new dollar coin was issued in early 2000. It honors Sacagawea, the young Shoshone woman who acted as an interpreter and diplomat for the Lewis and Clark expedition. From 1804 to 1806, she accompanied them from the Northern Great Plains to the Pacific Ocean. With her infant son bound to her back, she single-handedly rescued Captain Clark's journals from the Missouri whitewater, preserving much of the record of the first year of their expedition. The coin is clad in a manganese brass alloy. It weighs 8.1 gms, and is 26.5 mm in diameter, 2.0 mm thick. By comparison, the quarter dollar weighs 5.7 gms, and is 24.3 mm in diameter, 1.75 mm thick.
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