2010-P Great Law of Peace

Philadelphia matched Denver at 32,060,000 Sacagawea dollars in 2010, the second design year of the rotating Native American reverse program. Output stepped down from the 2009 Three Sisters launch (Philadelphia 39,200,000) but stayed an order of magnitude above the 2002 through 2008 trough years that ran 2.5 to 5 million per mint. The reverse is the Great Law of Peace, designed by Thomas Cleveland and sculpted by Charles L. Vickers. The imagery centers on the Hiawatha Belt, a wampum belt that records the founding of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy by uniting five nations (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca) under the Great Law brought by the Peacemaker and his spokesman Hiawatha. Five arrows bound together appear alongside the belt as the Great Law's signature image of unified strength. Inscriptions read "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA", "$1", and "GREAT LAW OF PEACE", with date, mintmark, and "E PLURIBUS UNUM" running on the lettered edge.

For the 2010-P specifically, the diagnostic question on a high-grade example is how cleanly the design transferred from the dies. The Hiawatha Belt's individual figures should show distinct separation rather than blurring together; the five bound arrows should each register as a separate shaft with the binding clearly defined. Weak strikes lose the figure separation first, which makes the design read as a generic geometric block rather than a wampum belt. The 2010-P does not have a Satin Finish counterpart, so the finish-confusion authentication issues that complicate 2005 through 2008 Philadelphia entries do not apply here. Spotting on the manganese-brass clad surface is the routine condition concern worth checking under angled light.

The 2010-P is a Regular classification piece. For collectors building the date-and-mintmark set across the rotating-reverse program, the 2010 Philadelphia issue sits in the easy-supply tier through MS66, with MS67 thinning out and MS68 the realistic condition target before pricing climbs. The 2010 design also reads as one of the more historically substantive entries in the rotation: the Great Law of Peace is the Haudenosaunee constitution, and Senate Concurrent Resolution 76 of 1988 formally acknowledged the confederacy's influence on the framers. For the program's full arc and the rotating-design schedule, see the Sacagawea Dollar series history.