2007-D Thomas Jefferson

Denver struck 102,810,000 Thomas Jefferson dollars in 2007, the heaviest output of any first-year Presidential issue from that mint. Jefferson was the third release of the new program, dropping into circulation on August 16, 2007, between the John Adams and James Madison launches. Joseph Menna's portrait, paired with Don Everhart's Statue of Liberty reverse, kept the design framework Don Everhart and the Mint had set with Washington in February. The lettered edge, applied as a separate third strike step, carries the date, mintmark, E PLURIBUS UNUM, and IN GOD WE TRUST. That extra production stage is the source of every collectible curiosity tied to the early Presidential run.

Strike quality on Denver Jeffersons runs slightly above the Philadelphia counterpart in MS65 and finer, a pattern that holds across the 2007 quartet. Edge inspection still matters more than obverse or reverse grading. Plain Edge examples, where the dollar left the Mint without its third strike applied, were documented for all four 2007 designs, including Jefferson; the Washington Plain Edge ("Godless dollar") drew the press, but every 2007 issue produced a measurable Plain Edge population. Genuine Plain Edge coins show a clean, smooth edge with no trace of a partially impressed legend, which separates them from worn or post-Mint damage. Doubled or weakly impressed edges are common minor varieties, but only the fully blank edge carries a recognized variety premium. PCGS, the Professional Coin Grading Service, and NGC, the Numismatic Guaranty Company, will both attribute the variety on submission.

The 2007-D Jefferson is a regular issue with no premium attached above face value in circulated grades and only modest premiums in MS66 and finer. Most collectors acquire one as part of a full Presidential year set or design set, where the Denver coin slots in alongside its Philadelphia twin without competing for it. Original Mint-rolled examples are the cleanest source of upper-grade material, since the manganese-brass alloy spots quickly once handled. For the larger picture of how the four-presidents-per-year format played out from launch through the 2012 shift to collector-only production, see the Presidential Dollar series history.