2011-P Andrew Johnson

Philadelphia delivered 35,560,000 Andrew Johnson dollars in 2011, the lowest Philadelphia mintage of the four 2011 designs (Grant 38.08M, Hayes 37.66M, Garfield 37.10M all topped it) and one of the smallest Philadelphia Presidential Dollar figures in the entire pre-NIFC business run. The release date was February 17, 2011, the program's standard quarterly launch cadence, and the issue opened the final calendar year of true circulation production for the series. By that point the Federal Reserve had accumulated several hundred million unreleased dollar coins in vault inventory, the result of mandated mintage levels under the Presidential $1 Coin Act of 2005 colliding with public indifference to the dollar coin format, and the December 13, 2011 NIFC suspension was already in active discussion at Treasury.

The Philadelphia coin carries a P mintmark on the edge rather than the obverse, a Presidential Dollar program quirk that catches collectors used to looking under date or behind portrait. The edge legend reads $1, the date, the mintmark, IN GOD WE TRUST, E PLURIBUS UNUM, and thirteen stars as separators, applied in a third strike after the obverse and reverse. By 2011 the edge-lettering press had been refined to the point that Plain Edge errors are scarce on this date; the famous "Godless dollar" Plain Edge errors are concentrated in 2007 Washington production. Look for clean strikes on the high points of Don Everhart's portrait, particularly the cheekbone and the lapel detail, and check that the orange-gold mint luster has not yet shifted to brown oxidation, the normal aging pattern for manganese-brass clad coins kept loose rather than rolled.

The 2011-P Andrew Johnson is a common date that trades at face value from original Mint rolls and bags, with Brilliant Uncirculated singles available for a small premium. Its collecting interest is structural: this is the lowest-mintage 2011 Philadelphia issue and one of the bookend coins of the program's circulation era. Professional Coin Grading Service population reports cluster the issue at MS66 and MS67, with MS68 examples thin enough that the date functions as a quiet condition-rarity target for Registry Set builders. For series context, see the Presidential Dollar series history.