2007-D Wyoming

Denver's 2007 Wyoming quarter carries Norman E. Nemeth's "Equality State" reverse: a sharp-edged silhouette of a bucking horse and rider in mid-pitch, the state motto inscribed below. The figure adapts Wyoming's trademarked Bucking Horse and Rider emblem, in continuous license-plate use since 1936 and one of only a handful of state symbols carried into a circulating-coin design without representational shading. Nemeth's silhouette approach reads instantly recognizable at coin scale, even with no interior modeling to support it. Wyoming ratified its statehood on July 10, 1890 as the forty-fourth state, and entered the Union with constitutional language that preserved its 1869 territorial grant of women's suffrage, the first such guarantee anywhere in the world. Denver struck 320,800,000 pieces, the highest 2007-D output of the year and the year's largest single-mint mintage across either coast. The 320.8 million figure outpaced even the high-output Idaho 286.8 million and Utah 253.2 million Denver runs that bracketed it.

Strikes on Denver Wyomings come up cleanly defined more often than not, with the horse's mid-air leg angles, the rider's hat, and the saddle-leather rigging cutouts serving as the natural detail registers. Weak strikes show up first as softness along the trailing tail and along the rider's silhouette outline where the relief sits deepest. Washington's cheek and hair-above-ear remain the obverse weak points for grading, and 2007-D bag handling typically caps many candidates at MS66. PCGS and NGC populations run deep at MS66, narrower at MS67, and meaningfully scarce at MS68 in the population reports kept by the two major third-party grading services (TPGs). No FS-listed varieties anchor to the issue.

The 2007-D Wyoming is the year's highest single-mint output and reads as the readily available standard for the bucking-horse design. The 320.8 million figure puts statistical pressure on premium strike availability: even at low percentage rates, a population that large produces meaningful absolute counts of MS66 and MS67 candidates in third-party grading service population reports. Roll searchers continue to pull premium strikes for full-detail gems, and MS67 examples remain available for collectors completing a top-grade run on a working budget. For wider context, see the 50 State Quarters series history.