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1 Dollar 'Native American Dollar' Sequoyah of the Cherokee Nation
| Issuer | United States Mint |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Weight | 8.1 g |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts Sequoyah, the celebrated Cherokee scholar and inventor of the Cherokee syllabary, shown in three-quarter bust leaning forward and writing with a stylus or quill pen, his hands actively inscribing characters onto a tablet or surface. He wears a traditional turban-style head wrap. The name 'Sequoyah' is inscribed in script lettering to the right of his effigy, and Cherokee syllabary characters appear along the right rim within the inner circle. The denomination $1 and the designers' initials CLV and CTC appear in the lower left field. The legend UNITED STATES OF AMERICA arcs along the upper border, separated from the inner design by a raised inner circle, with a five-pointed star as a divider. |
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| Reverse lettering | UNITED STATES OF AMERICA * ᏍᏏᏉᏯ ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ ᎡᎯ Sequoyah $1 CLV CTC (Translation: Ssiquoya from Cherokee Nation Note: Sequoyah signed his name Ssiquoya) |
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The 2017 Native American Dollar honors Sequoyah, the Cherokee silversmith who single-handedly created a written syllabary for the Cherokee language between roughly 1809 and 1821 — one of the only known instances in recorded history of a person with no prior literacy inventing a complete writing system independently. Within a decade of its introduction, Cherokee literacy rates reportedly surpassed those of surrounding white settler communities. The syllabary is still in use.