2013-P Treaty with the Delawares, NIFC

Philadelphia struck 1,820,000 Sacagawea dollars in 2013, the second year of Not Intended For Circulation distribution and the lowest Philadelphia annual figure the program had recorded at the time. The 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 legend TREATY WITH THE DELAWARES 1778. Glenna Goodacre's Sacagawea portrait remains on the obverse, with date, P mintmark, and E PLURIBUS UNUM on the incused edge.

Like the 2012 Trade Routes pair, the 2013-P never reached Federal Reserve cash channels. The full Philadelphia output moved through Mint bags, rolls, and the annual Uncirculated Mint Set, which means circulated examples in the wild are limited to a handful of pieces broken out and spent. Strike on the manganese-brass clad alloy is generally clean: the howling wolf's open mouth should show definition rather than a soft pit, the turkey's tail feathers should separate cleanly, and the turtle shell should carry visible plate divisions. The peace pipe stem holds the sharpest edge in the design and goes mushy first as dies wear, making it the quickest die-state read.

The 2013-P is a Regular classification piece. At 1,820,000 the figure is the lowest annual mintage struck at any single Sacagawea mint at the time the year closed, undercutting 2012 Trade Routes Philadelphia (2,080,000) and the pre-NIFC low at Denver in 2004 (2,660,000). Original mint-sealed rolls trade at small premiums over face plus packaging, and the rotating-reverse subset base treats the 2013 pair as one of the more interesting low-mintage anchors of the post-2011 NIFC stretch. Professional Coin Grading Service and Numismatic Guaranty Company populations run deep through MS66, with MS67 the practical ceiling. For the Native American $1 Coin Act of 2007 and the December 2011 NIFC policy shift, see the Sacagawea Dollar series history.