1979 D BU Susan B Anthony S.B.A. Dollar Choice Uncirculated US Mint

The Susan B.

Anthony (S.B.A.) dollar is a United States dollar coin minted from 1979 to 1981, when production was suspended due to poor public acceptance, and then again in 1999.

Intended as a replacement for the larger Eisenhower dollar, the new smaller one dollar coin went through testing of several shapes and compositions, but all were opposed by the vending machine industry, a powerful lobby affecting coin legislation.

Finally, a round planchet with an eleven-ided inner border was chosen for the smaller dollar.

The original design for the smaller dollar coin depicted an allegorical representation of Liberty on the obverse, but organizations and individuals in Congress called for the coin to depict a real woman.

Several proposals were submitted, and social reformer Susan B.

Anthony was selected as the design subject.