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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dcarr, post: 717451, member: 4781&quot;]More:</p><p><br /></p><p>The last commemorative coin struck in Denver: 2001-D Indian Head Buffalo silver dollar.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only modern PROOF coin struck in Denver: 1984-D $10 gold Olympics proof.</p><p><br /></p><p>All business-strike 40% silver Kennedy half dollars were made in Denver (including those from 1965-1967).&nbsp;&nbsp; The special-mint-set (SMS) and proof-set issues were struck in San Francisco.&nbsp;&nbsp; None were struck in Philadelphia.</p><p><br /></p><p>The most valuable modern commemorative silver coin is from the Denver Mint: 1989-D Congress Bicentennial silver dollar with reverse rotated 180 degrees ($1,500-$2,500 currently).</p><p><br /></p><p>The Denver Mint (supposedly) is home to 1/4th of the nation&#039;s gold reserves.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 2006, Congress failed to authorize a commemorative coin for the 100th anniversary of the Denver Mint.&nbsp;&nbsp; Instead, they ordered 2006 San Francicso Mint coins commemorating the 100th anniversary of the great earthquake.&nbsp;&nbsp; The Denver Mint did produce 100th anniversary medals, intending to give them out to employees.&nbsp;&nbsp; But when US Mint headquarters in Washington DC got wind of the plan, they put a stop to it.&nbsp;&nbsp; Rumor has it that the medals were actually minted and they are either sitting in a vault or have been destroyed.&nbsp;&nbsp; A private mint produced and released a very limited quantity of 2006 Denver Mint 100th anniversary tokens in brass, silver, gold, and palladium:</p><p><img src="http://www.dc-coin.com/ProductImages/c_0011BP_384.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In the 1860s the US Government bought out the private Clark Gruber mint and later turned it into the US Denver Mint.&nbsp;&nbsp; In an ironic twist, in 2001 the Denver Mint sold a surplus coin press which later became the core asset of a new private mint in Colorado.</p><p>That press was used to mint these 1-oz gold pieces which are a tribute to the Clark Gruber gold coins first issued 150 years earlier:</p><p><img src="http://www.dc-coin.com/ProductImages/gr_1000_2009_pr.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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