2013-D Treaty with the Delawares, NIFC

The 2013 Native American reverse commemorates the Treaty with the Delawares, signed September 17, 1778 at Fort Pitt between the Continental Congress and the Lenape (Delaware) Nation, the first formal written treaty between the United States and a sovereign Native nation. Susan Gamble designed it and Phebe Hemphill sculpted it. Three animals representing the principal Lenape clans, a turkey for Pele, a howling wolf for Took, and a turtle for Pukuwanku, surround a ceremonial peace pipe, with the inscription TREATY WITH THE DELAWARES 1778. Glenna Goodacre's Sacagawea portrait stays on the obverse, with date, D mintmark, and E PLURIBUS UNUM on the incused edge introduced when the rotating reverse program began in 2009. The 1778 agreement promised the Lenape eventual statehood within the new union, a promise the federal government did not keep.

Denver struck 1,820,000 pieces, the lowest Denver figure in the program at the time and the second year of Not Intended For Circulation distribution after the 2012 Trade Routes pair. The mintage moved through Mint bags, rolls, and uncirculated sets only, never released to Federal Reserve banks. Strike on the manganese-brass clad alloy follows the program pattern: the three clan animals should each show clean separation, the turkey's tail feathers should register as distinct quills rather than a smeared fan, and the pipe stem should hold a sharp edge against the field. Spotting (small dark dots that develop on improperly stored brass-clad surfaces) is the routine condition concern on rolls kept in non-archival flips.

The 2013-D is a Regular classification piece. The 1,820,000 figure prices it as a NIFC scarcity rather than a true key, with original mint-sealed rolls and bags trading at modest premiums over face plus packaging. The Professional Coin Grading Service and Numismatic Guaranty Company populations run deep through MS66, with MS67 thinning out and MS68 the realistic high-grade ceiling. Collectors building the rotating-reverse subset treat the 2013-D as one of the lower-mintage anchors of the post-2011 NIFC stretch. For the Native American $1 Coin Act of 2007 and the December 2011 NIFC policy shift, see the Sacagawea Dollar series history.