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Message:: [QUOTE="Clinker, post: 161771, member: 6229"]You probably know the Denver Mint began producing coins in 1906. You, also, probably know, the coins the mint struck that year were the dime, quarter, half dollar, half eagle ($5.00) gold piece, eagle ($10.00) gold piece and the double-eagle ($20.00) gold piece. You, also, probably know no one-cent coins were struck by this mint until the 1911 Lincoln cent and the first dollar struck by the Denver Mint was the 1921 Morgan. But, do you know the first commemorrative coin to bear the "D" mintmark of Denver is the 1933 Oregon Trail Memorial Half Dollar? Do you know the Denver mint never struck any one dollar gold coins? That's because the production of one dollar gold coins ceased in 1889. Any gold one dollar coin bearing a "D" mint mark was struck at Dahlonega, Georgia which only minted gold coins. Denver struck Quarter Eagle ($2 1/2) gold pieces for the first time in 1911 the same year it struck 1911 Lincoln Cents.No $3.00 gold pieces were struck at Denver.No $4.00 gold pieces (stellas) were struck at either the Denver or the Dohlonega mints. Clinker [/QUOTE]