The Denver mint is on a coin showing the letter D, this means it was made in Denver, sometimes depending on the coin and year the D mint can be worth some money.
The little "D" on the coin means it came from the Denver Mint. The Denver Mint is in Colorado.
The first coin struck at Denver Mint was the 1906D Barber dime.
Just because a coin was struck at the Denver Mint does not make it more valuable. But some D mint coins are more valuable, it depends on the date, denomination and condition of the coin.
Look at the coin again. The first coin struck at the Denver Mint was in 1906 What you have is a Mint medallion that was included in coin sets for many years. They were struck on cent blanks. The date is the year that the Treasury Department was established.
It's not a coin it's a mint medal. Its out of a souvenir set from the Denver mint. The sets are only sold at the gift shoppes at the Denver & Philadelphia mints.
A mint-mark on a coin is a letter designating the location of the mint where the coin was made. "D" for Denver, "P" for Philadelphia, "S" for San Francisco.
D is the mintmark for the Denver mint.
It is a tiny letter, usually near the date, that signifies whihc mint the coin come from. On American coins, if there is no visible mint mark, it is from the Philadelphia mint. A "D" indicatges the Denver mint.
On the back of the coin, under the ONE in "ONE DOLLAR", there will be a "D" if the coin was minted in Denver and if there is no letter under there it is a Philadelphia minted coin. Your coin may have an "S" as a mintmark rather than a "D" or no mintmark, in that case your coin was minted in San Fransisco.
The letter is known as the mint-mark and tells where the coin was made. A coin having a P mint-mark (or no mint-mark on some coins) was made in Philadelphia, a coin having an S Mint-mark was minted in San Fransisco, a coin with a D mint-mark was minted in Denver.
A "D" on a US coin indicates that it was minted at the Denver Mint.
It means that the coin was produced at the Denver Mint.