2007-P Thomas Jefferson

Philadelphia delivered 100,800,000 Thomas Jefferson dollars in 2007, the third design released under the new Presidential $1 Coin Act of 2005. Jefferson followed Washington and John Adams into circulation on August 16, 2007, with Madison closing out the inaugural year that November. Joseph Menna engraved the obverse portrait and the legend "THOMAS JEFFERSON / 3RD PRESIDENT / 1801-1809"; Don Everhart's Statue of Liberty reverse carried over from the Washington release as the program's standing common reverse. The manganese-brass planchet, 8.1 grams and 26.5 millimeters across, was inherited from the Sacagawea dollar; the lettered edge was the genuine novelty.

That edge is where the 2007 issues tell their story. The Mint applied IN GOD WE TRUST, E PLURIBUS UNUM, the date, and mintmark in a separate third strike after the obverse and reverse were impressed. Coins that bypassed the edge press left the facility blank-edged. The Washington Plain Edge variety, quickly nicknamed the "Godless dollar" after IN GOD WE TRUST went missing, drew most of the press, but the Jefferson Plain Edge exists in the same population pattern, just with thinner survival because Jefferson came late enough in the year for inspection procedures to tighten. Genuine Plain Edge specimens show a clean, fully blank edge; partial or weak impressions do not qualify and trade as minor varieties at best. Both PCGS and NGC will attribute the variety on submission. For graded examples of the standard issue, the alloy bag-marks easily, so original-roll coins are the practical source for Mint State 66 and finer.

The 2007-P Jefferson is a regular common date with no key-date or semi-key claim. Realistic collecting paths are a full 2007 four-design year set, a complete forty-coin Presidential design set, or a Mint-roll purchase if a registry-set MS67 example is the goal. Prices barely move above face in circulated grades; the premium structure begins at MS66 and remains modest. For the broader framework, including the 2012 transition to collector-only production after surplus inventories accumulated, see the Presidential Dollar series history.