By David Ganz for Numismatic News

The U.S. Treasury will issue $1 Sacagewea coins in 2009 and beyond with reverse images commemorating the important contributions made by Indian tribes and individual Native Americans to the development of the United States and American history.

President Bush signed H.R. 2358 on Sept. 20, the last day before the bill would have become law without it.

Public Law 110-83 is also known as the Native American $1 Coin Act. Effective beginning Jan. 1, 2009, the following design requirements are applicable to the Sacagawea dollar coins:

The design on the reverse shall bear images celebrating the important contributions made by Indian tribes and individual Native Americans to the development of the United States and the history of the United States; the inscription “$1”; and the inscription “United States of America.”