2010-P Millard Fillmore

Philadelphia struck 37,520,000 Millard Fillmore dollars in 2010, the year's lead-off Presidential design and the thirteenth in the program. The coin released February 18, 2010 ahead of Pierce, Buchanan, and Lincoln, and posted a Philadelphia total roughly half of the 2008-P Van Buren issued two years earlier. The cut reflected what Treasury reports were calling a billion-coin surplus accumulating at Federal Reserve banks, the result of unreleased Washington-through-Taylor pallets that retail circulation had failed to absorb. Phebe Hemphill sculpted the obverse portrait of the thirteenth president, who took office on July 9, 1850 after Zachary Taylor's death and signed the Compromise of 1850 a few weeks later. The reverse remains Don Everhart's Statue of Liberty, used on every circulating Presidential Dollar through the 2016 issues.

Strike on the 2010-P Fillmore is generally clean across the central obverse, with the first softness usually appearing on the hair above the ear and the edge of the high collar where dies tend to wear earliest in a long press run. Reverse weakness on the torch flame and on the deeper folds of Liberty's gown tracks the rest of 2010 production at roughly the same incidence. The "P" mintmark is incused on the edge along with the date and the mottoes in a third strike, so missing-edge-lettering errors and partial-edge-lettering pieces remain the cherry-pickable territory on this date. They are scarcer here than on the 2007 Washington dollar that originated the "Godless dollar" coverage, but authentic examples slabbed by PCGS, the Professional Coin Grading Service, or NGC, the Numismatic Guaranty Company, command real premiums.

The 2010-P Fillmore is a common date in circulated grades and through Mint State 66, with the condition arc tightening sharply at MS67 where bag marks on the open obverse field thin the certified population. Most date-and-mint collectors slot the issue through original Mint-wrapped rolls, the 2010 Annual Uncirculated Coin Set, or the four-design 2010 Presidential Dollar set rather than chasing slabbed singles, and a clean MS66 from an unsearched roll remains a realistic outcome at modest cost. For the program-wide context, including the 2012 shift to collector-only distribution, see the Presidential Dollar series history.