Mint Condition

WHO NOSE? With nearly 200 million of the coins in circulation four weeks after launch, the U.S. Mint's new Sacagawea Golden Dollar, top, is right on the money. Or is it? The Lewis and Clark Shoshone guide was given an "Ally McBeal nose job" by the Treasury after officials saw the artist's original design, complains the president of the Professional Numismatists Guild. Not so, says the Mint. Any differences (an earlier version of the coin is at right) are the result of mass-production limitations. Heads! Your call.

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