2001-D Vermont

Denver's 2001 Vermont quarter, the fourteenth program release overall, shares T. James Ferrell's reverse with its Philadelphia counterpart: a sugar maple grove with sap buckets hanging from tapped spiles in the foreground and the double-summit profile of Camel's Hump rising behind. The state motto "Freedom and Unity" curves below the design. The Green Mountain State's choice put a working maple operation on the coin, the seasonal sugaring tradition tied directly to a peak Vermonters recognize on sight. Denver produced 459,404,000 pieces, narrowly outpacing the Philadelphia output and reversing the more common P-over-D pattern that ran across most of the 2001 lineup.

Denver strikes on Vermont tend to come up cleanly defined, though the multi-element composition leaves multiple registration points to wear. The small sap buckets and the maple branches are the typical die-fill spots on later-die-state coins; the ridges of Camel's Hump can soften as dies tire, and the tree trunks occasionally show flatness near the bases on heavily worn dies. Washington's cheek and the field behind the head remain the obverse weak points for grading; bag-handling at Denver scatters small marks across these areas and caps many candidates short of MS67. PCGS and NGC populations are deep at MS66, narrower at MS67, and meaningfully scarce at MS68 in the population reports kept by the two major third-party grading services (TPGs). No FS-listed varieties have anchored to the issue, though shallow die cracks across the foreground branches appear on cherrypicked rolls.

The 2001-D Vermont carries a small Denver-over-Philadelphia mintage edge, a structural detail collectors track in long-term population terms. Demand sits with registry-set work and with topical collectors who pair the coin with maple-industry memorabilia or with northern-New-England regional sets. Roll searchers still pull premium strikes for full-detail gems, and MS67 Denver examples remain accessible on a working budget. For more on the broader program, see the 50 State Quarters series history.