2007-D George Washington

The 2007-D George Washington opens the Presidential Dollar series, struck at Denver as the second of four 2007 designs released under the Presidential $1 Coin Act of 2005. Washington reached release on February 15, 2007, with John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison rolling out at roughly three-month intervals through the rest of the year. The launch carried real public attention, the first time since the Sacagawea dollar that a circulating dollar coin tried to find a daily-commerce role, and the Mint paired it with a banking-channel distribution program that pushed millions of coins into Federal Reserve inventory in the opening weeks.

The 163,680,000-piece Denver mintage is enormous by any measure outside cents and nickels, but the launch year carried a complication unique to the design. Each coin required three pressing operations: the obverse and reverse strike, then a separate edge-lettering pass that applied "$1," the year, the mintmark, IN GOD WE TRUST, E PLURIBUS UNUM, and thirteen stars to the rim. That third step misfired often enough on 2007 production to create the well-documented Edge Lettering Error variety, catalogued as a separate listing on the site. For the standard 2007-D, collectors should look closely at strike quality on Washington's hair detail and at the Statue of Liberty's torch, since the manganese-brass alloy hardens the dies and produces softer central detail on later die-state strikes than the early impressions show.

As a collecting target, the 2007-D sits firmly in the common category through MS66, with rolls and Mint-bag pieces still readily available at modest premiums to face value. The condition story shifts at MS67 and especially MS68, where Population Reports thin out fast as bag-marks and pressing softness drag down high grades on what is otherwise a high-mintage issue. Year-set and type-set buyers anchor most demand, and the inaugural-year status pulls a small premium over later common dates in the same series. For deeper context on the program's structure, NIFC transition, and the full design roster, see the Presidential Dollar series history.