2008 (D) Presidential Dollar - Martin Van Buren, Position A

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A dollar from the Denver Mint, the 2008 (D) Presidential Dollar - Martin Van Buren, Position A belongs to the Presidential Dollars 2007 to Date series. The U.S. Mint reported 51.0 million Martin Van Buren dollars from Denver for 2008 as a whole; no separate count of Position A edges exists. The obverse features rotating portraits of each U.S. president in order of service, released four per year and the reverse displays the Statue of Liberty. The eighth President (1837–1841), Martin Van Buren was the first president born as a U.S. citizen rather than a British subject, and the only president whose first language was not English — he grew up speaking Dutch. His term was dominated by the Panic of 1837. The second year honored Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Jackson, and Van Buren. Mounting complaints about edge lettering legibility led Congress to move "In God We Trust" to the obverse starting in 2009. Coined at Denver's facility, which transitioned from processing Colorado gold rush metal to full-scale coin production in 1906. Struck in 88.5% copper, 6% zinc, 3.5% manganese and 2% nickel, weighing 8.1 grams, 26.5 mm in diameter, with a lettered edge. Cataloged as PCGS #394867.