2017-D George Rogers Clark

Denver's 2017 George Rogers Clark production reached 220,400,000 pieces, running 14 million ahead of Philadelphia's 206,400,000 for the same design and closing the 2017 ATB year on a higher-output note from the Denver facility. The 56-design ATB program had four more years to run after 2017, and this date sits as the last Denver release before the 2018 group introduced Pictured Rocks, Apostle Islands, Voyageurs, Cumberland Island, and Block Island. Frank Morris's reverse, with Clark and his men crossing the flooded Wabash bottoms in winter 1779, was the second of Morris's three ATB designs (alongside 2015's Blue Ridge Parkway and 2016's Cumberland Gap).

Strike quality on the Denver issue often runs marginally crisper than Philadelphia in the militia figures and the water-line detail at the men's feet, though die-state variation across the production run is the bigger factor in any specific example's grade. The composition follows the standard clad formula (75% copper-nickel outer layers bonded to a pure copper core, 5.67 grams total weight, 24.26 mm diameter), and authentication concerns are essentially nil for circulation-strike modern clad coinage. Counterfeiters do not target the issue. The high-grade market runs through PCGS and NGC, the two leading third-party grading services, with raw MS65 to MS66 examples remaining findable in original bank-wrapped Denver rolls.

The 2017-D George Rogers Clark is a Regular-classification issue where the Revolutionary War figural composition sustains firm collector interest at registry grades. Certified-population data show the standard 2017-D distribution at common grades, with the typical step-up at MS67 and the real climb at MS68 where supply tightens. The Enhanced Uncirculated 2017-S George Rogers Clark remains a separate catalog entry and not a higher-finish version of this Denver circulation strike. Roll hunters in the Midwest and Ohio Valley still report occasional MS65 cherry-picks from original bank-wrapped quarters of this date, though the easy candy has thinned. For the broader story of the ATB program and the series' design arc, see the Washington ATB series history.