The U.S. Mint in February released its $1 coin commemorating and honoring the late Alaska Native civil rights leader Elizabeth Wanamaker Peratrovich, but it’s not easy to get one — or two or three.

The public can order the coins from the U.S. Mint, but the minimum is 25 coins. And while the Mint recently set up a special program for financial institutions in Alaska only to order the coins, the minimum is 1,000. Before…