August 18, 2000
GOODACRE CHOOSES ICG
Glenna
Good acre's, the obverse designer of the Sacagawea Dollar, has chosen ICG to
certify the 5,000 Sacagawea Dollars that were presented to her by the US
Mint. In choosing ICG, Ms. Good acre's' objectives were preservation, presentation
and a means of permanent identification of these 5,000 special coins.
Good acre's,
a Santa Fe, New Mexico sculptor, was paid by the US Mint for her work on
the Sacagawea Dollar with 5,000 specially processed Sacagawea dollars. The
artist said, "We needed a means to permanently identify these coins. ICG
was the perfect choice."
Each
coin will be individually numbered on the ICG certification label. The labels
will read "1 of 5,000, 2 of 5,000" all the way to "5,000 of 5,000." ICG
encapsulated 120 of the Good acre's Sacagawea Dollars on Tuesday, August 18,
2000, and will seal the remainder in October, when ICG's exclusive Intercept
gasket is available.
Preservation
was an important reason why Good acre's chose ICG. Daniel Anthony, Good acre's'
representative, stated, "The new ICG Intercept holder provides the best
protection available for the Good acre's Sacagawea coins. To trust the long-term
preservation of the Good acre's Sacagawea's to ICG and their Intercept gasket
that was created and patented by Lucent Technologies made the choice of
grading services a clear and obvious one."
James
Taylor, ICG's Vice-president of Marketing, added, "For the US Mint to release
specially processed coins, with a limited run of 5,000 pieces, is truly
remarkable. With millions of proof sets and hundreds of millions of other
coins being produced, these Good acre's Sacagawea's are a modern rarity."
ICG
President, Keith Love, offered, "Glenna Good acre's choice of ICG does not
surprise me. We have already received feedback from thousands of collectors
who want their coins protected by Intercept. This includes some of the finest
known collections in the world. I noticed the Intercept Shield booth was
one of the busiest at the recent ANA convention."
Glenna
Good acre's appeared at the H.E. Harris and Company booth at the ANA convention
in Philadelphia. She was available for autographs and discussed designing
the Sacagawea Dollar with coin collectors who lined up by the hundreds to
meet her.
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