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2023-D Indiana
| Weight | 8.1 g |
| Diameter | 26.5 mm |
| Mint | Denver |
| Strike | Circulation strike |
| Mintage | 443,650 |
| Edge | Lettered (year, mintmark, E PLURIBUS UNUM) |
| Alignment | ↑↓ Coin |
| Composition | Manganese Brass (88.5% Cu, 6% Zn, 3.5% Mn, 2% Ni) |
| Melt value | — |
| Designer | Justin Kunz (obverse) |
| Collector's Key ID | CK-5147 |
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Other recorded varieties for 2023-D:
- 2023-D Louisiana · Louisiana
- 2023-D Mississippi · Mississippi
- 2023-D Ohio · Ohio
External references
The 2023-D Indiana American Innovation Dollar is the Denver Mint's strike of the nineteenth-state tribute, released June 26, 2023. Indiana entered the Union on December 11, 1816, and the Mint's design honors the state's automotive heritage as a single integrated story rather than a single year. Designed by Ronald D. Sanders of the Mint's Artistic Infusion Program and sculpted by Medallic Artist Phebe Hemphill, the reverse stacks three vehicles vertically: an early-style gas automobile representing Indiana's 1890s pioneer car builders, a representation of the classic-car production that ran through Studebaker, Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg, and Stutz, and a modern Indy-style race car. The inscriptions UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and INDIANA frame the composition. The 443,650-piece Denver mintage is mid-pack for the 2023 program.
Strike characteristics on the manganese-brass clad planchet show the realities collectors expect from the late-stage Innovation Dollars. The composition tones unevenly in storage, and original Mint-bag coins often arrive with surface haze rather than the bright finish of fresh proofs. The three-vehicle composition asks more of the dies than the typical single-subject reverse, and the most useful diagnostic on a Denver coin is the middle classic-car element, which loses interior detail first when strike pressure runs light. The edge incused inscription carries the year, the D mintmark, and E PLURIBUS UNUM. Counterfeit risk on a $1 face-value coin barely a year old is essentially zero; the buying decision is condition.
The 2023-D is a regular issue. Mint-direct rolls and bags moved at modest premiums in 2023, and the natural buyer base is the year-set builder working the four-coin 2023 program (Ohio, Louisiana, Indiana, Mississippi) and the format completist chasing all four 2023 Indiana strikes. PCGS and NGC populations in MS67 and MS68 from the initial release are still building; for the patient collector, an MS68 Denver Indiana from a graded set is genuinely scarce, and that is the pricing line that has held up. For the broader context of how the program is structured, see the American Innovation Dollar series history.
Reference data only — not an appraisal.
| Grade | Description | Low | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| G-4 | Good (G) | — | — |
| VG-8 | Very Good (VG) | — | — |
| F-12 | Fine (F) | — | — |
| VF-20 | Very Fine (VF) | — | — |
| EF-40 | Extremely Fine (EF) | — | — |
| AU-50 | About Uncirculated (AU) | — | — |
| MS-60 | Uncirculated (MS) | — | — |
| MS-63 | Choice Uncirculated (MS) | — | — |
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