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| Issuer | Los Coyotes Band of Cahuilla and Cupeño Indians |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Value | 1 Dollar |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A finely engraved bust portrait of a Sioux warrior in three-quarter facing right, adorned with a large traditional eagle-feather war bonnet rendered in elaborate detail with each feather individually incised. The figure wears a draped garment and appears to carry a ceremonial implement in the lower left field. The legend 'SIOUX' arcs above in stylized lettering, while the lower border bears the inscriptions '1 OZ. .999 SILVER · 2020 · ONE DOLLAR' arranged in a curved arc around the lower periphery. |
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Los Coyotes is among the most geographically isolated reservations in California, occupying roughly 25,000 acres in the San Bernardino Mountains with no casino and no significant commercial infrastructure — an unusual position for a federally recognized tribe in the post-IGRA decades. The band has periodically issued silver rounds to generate revenue outside the gaming economy that most neighboring nations depend on.
The Sioux teepee motif is pan-Indian iconography with no direct connection to Cahuilla or Cupeño material culture, whose peoples historically built dome-shaped brush shelters called *kishes*.