Half Dollar Hawaiians tribes

Jamul Indian Village, a Kumeyaay band located in San Diego County, issues its own coinage under the sovereign authority recognized by federal acknowledgment — a status the Village lost entirely in 2001 when the Bureau of Indian Affairs briefly terminated its recognition before reversing course after legal challenge. That bureaucratic near-erasure of the band makes any tribally issued piece from Jamul a document of contested sovereignty rather than routine minting.