2016-D Richard M. Nixon, NIFC

Denver struck 4,340,000 Richard M. Nixon dollars in 2016, the lead design of the program's final regular year and the February 3 release that opened the fifth year produced under the Not Intended For Circulation policy. Nixon leads the 2016 trio of Nixon, Ford, and Reagan in strict presidential succession as the 37th president, and the coin reached collectors in rolls, bags, and 250-coin boxes through the United States Mint's online channels rather than through Federal Reserve distribution. The Denver figure sits in the lower band of the NIFC stretch, consistent with the year-over-year softening in collector demand across the late program. Don Everhart designed and sculpted the obverse portrait, paired with his own Statue of Liberty reverse common to every business-strike Presidential Dollar.

The 2016-D Nixon never entered general circulation, so any worn example traces back to a coin that left a Mint-wrapped roll and was spent. Strike characteristics are clean across the central obverse and reverse, with first softening usually visible on the high points of Nixon's hair and on Liberty's torch arm. Edge-lettering errors of the kind that defined the 2007 Washington plain-edge variety remain mechanically possible on NIFC dates because the third lettering strike sits outside the obverse-and-reverse press, but the smaller late-program runs received tighter quality control and verified missing-edge 2016 examples are scarce. Authentication on a raw coin leans on edge-lettering completeness and on the satin finish typical of bag-distributed pieces; certified slabs from PCGS, the Professional Coin Grading Service, or NGC, the Numismatic Guaranty Company, supply the warranty most collectors want for any edge-error premium.

For collectors, the 2016-D Nixon sits in the lower-mintage tier of the NIFC era. Population reports show ample supply at MS66 and MS67, the typical ceiling for satin-finish dollars pulled straight from a Mint-wrapped roll, and the realistic acquisition path is either an original 25-coin roll for a few dollars over face or an inexpensive certified MS67. The pricing premium over 2007-2011 circulation-era Denver dollars holds steadier than mid-program NIFC dates because the 2016 issues anchor the end of the 40-coin sequence and matter for set completion. For the December 2011 NIFC cutover and the Mint's product-distribution shift, see the Presidential Dollar series history.