Are there silver versions of the Sacagawea dollar?

I found this Sacagawea dollar and it is a very shiny silver color. There is no copper or gold color anywhere on the coin. The date is 2010. I have several of them and they are all gold in color. Can anyone help me figure this out? Is it real? Is it rare?

 

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Pretty sure it's plated.

 

Since the cladding is mainly copper,zinc + Ni and Mn, I suspect it is tarnish as I see many older cents with this color toning. And yes, it could like thousand of other copper surface coins, have been plated with zinc ( common chemical experiment), but I am not sure the manganese% in the clad allows that. Maybe someone has tried it already. Worth a $ .

 

@Kelly88

First, welcome to the neighborhood!

It's my guess that it was plated, too. There are two possible ways this may have occurred: 1) Some of the TV coin shows will plate low-grade mint state coins with silver or gilt to sell as sets at exaggerated prices. 2) For as long as I can remember (I'm 68), kids have used mercury to coat coins for science projects or just for the heck of it.

Was this coin sold by one of the TV shows? Maybe not, but I do know that the uninformed people who bought this junk, learning later that they weren't worth more than face value, usually dumped them back into circulation.

Chris

 

Can you weigh it on a gram scale?

 

There are no silver Sacy's.......2008 Red Book has a listing for some silver Sacajawea's in the 'dollar' section but I think that was more of an optimistic, forward (at the time) thinking, hopeful fruition on Whitman Publishing's part. Never happened. Wish it did though. Might have been an interesting collectible......

 

What happened was that the mint realized that the law stated that the silver proof sets had to contain silver for all denominations 10 cents or higher.

Initially, there was the presumption that the mint had to produce the Saki's in silver, but, to avoid the problem, the Congress quickly passed a law changing the silver requirement.
Apparently, the Red Book was printed prior to the law being passed.

 

A silver cam proof would have been a great looking coin.

 

Looks plated to me. Check the edges of the coin carefully. If it's plated, maybe you'll get lucky and find a small spot that didn't get plated and the true color will show in a crevice.

 

Welcome to the coin hood Kelly88. Read everything you can on this site there is a lot to learn.

 

I am having the same conundrum....I have a Sacagawea 2009-P "Silver" coin.
I weighed a regular one and it weighs 8G. The one I have weighs 8.1G.
I noticed a flaw and took a close look....It does look like it was silver plated.
I remember coating coins with mercury at the age of 7 but they turned pink later...so I don't think that your coin would have mercury on it. I did find another conversation forum on cointalk.com that talks about a 2007 Sacagawea....So I think that there were several of these coins produced........More Fodder to chew on.

 

This company has been selling such plated "collectibles" since at least 2007:

http://www.uscommgallery.com/2014-silver-enriched-native-american-dollar

 

Hello. A related question. I found a Sacagawea 2000 that is as copper as a penny. I am curious about it. Thanks

 

There are no silver Sac dollars. But you will find them listed in either the 2000 or 2001 Redbook.

 

I have a silver colored one I found as well!

I have a 2000 silver sacy!

 

My silver sacy is a 2000!

 

Your coin has been plated with some silver colored metal after it left the mint.

 

It looks plated to me !

 

It's a 2000 D. 7.94g. looking at the finer details it seems to be plated after it was stamped but it should be heavyer!