2025-D Texas

Denver struck 1,120,000 examples of the 2025 Texas American Innovation Dollar, matching the Philadelphia total and closing the 2025 four-design rotation that ran Arkansas, Michigan, Florida, and Texas. The U.S. Mint released the rolls and bags on July 29, 2025. The reverse, designed by Ronald Sanders of the Artistic Infusion Program and sculpted by Medallic Artist John P. McGraw, depicts an American astronaut conducting a spacewalk outside the International Space Station, not any earthbound innovation; the design honors Mission Control at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, the facility that has guided every U.S. human spaceflight since the Gemini program. Reverse inscriptions read UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and TEXAS, and the obverse carries the standard Statue of Liberty by Justin Kunz with a stylized gear privy mark unique to 2025.

The Denver issue distributes the same way as the Philadelphia counterpart: 25-coin rolls and 100-coin bags through the U.S. Mint catalog, no general circulation release, and effectively the entire surviving population in collector hands at MS65 and above. Strike characteristics follow the standard manganese-brass pattern, a satin obverse and reasonably crisp reverse, with the most variable detail the articulation of the spacewalking astronaut against the ISS truss structure behind. Examples that show clean separation between the EVA suit and the modular truss segments grade meaningfully better than those where the area mushes together, a difference visible at MS66 and a real factor above MS67. Manganese-brass clad reacts readily with skin oils and ambient humidity, so handled examples almost always show fingerprint outlines or streaky toning across the open dark-space field.

Market position is straightforward common-date for set assembly. The 2025-D sells in original Mint rolls at small premiums over face, certified MS67 trades cheaply, and the population thins above MS68 where the prize is condition rather than mintage. The 1,120,000-piece total continues the standard production allocation the program has held across every 2024 and 2025 state design. The badge remains Regular: the mintage, while modest in modern dollar terms, is more than sufficient to supply collector demand without registry-tier scarcity pressure outside MS68 and above. Recommended raw inside an original Denver roll for date-set assembly and certified MS68 or higher for registry-set builders. For broader program context, see the American Innovation Dollar series history.