2013-D Perry's Memorial

Denver's 2013 Perry's Memorial came in at 122,400,000 pieces, edging out the Philadelphia tally of 107.8 million and reflecting the broader 2013 Federal Reserve order pattern that pushed D-mint output above its P-mint counterpart on most designs that year. Don Everhart's reverse, showing Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry in the foreground with the memorial column at Put-in-Bay rising behind, commemorates the bicentennial of the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie. The 352-foot Doric column on South Bass Island in Lake Erie is the world's tallest such monument and was designated a National Monument in 1936.

D-mint examples from this issue read consistently across the long production run because Denver kept tight die-rotation discipline through 2013. The Perry portrait is the primary strike anchor: look for clean facial detail (eye sockets, jawline, uniform collar) and good separation between the statue and the column shaft behind it. The fluting along the column rises and falls with strike sharpness and is the secondary grade-determining element. The clad composition (75% copper-nickel outer layers over a pure copper core, 5.67 grams) is the standard since 1965, so authentication is a non-issue and the high-grade market runs through PCGS and NGC slabs (the two major third-party grading services). Roll hunters still find MS65 examples in original D-mint rolls.

The 2013-D Perry's Memorial carries a Regular classification and trades as one of the most available D-mint dates from the year in high Mint State. Population reports at MS67 and MS68 are deep, and pricing through MS67 stays modest. Real premium spend on this issue makes sense only at MS68+ in coins with full strike on the Perry portrait and clean column fluting. Set builders pursuing the full circulation run find this date among the easier 2013 acquisitions. For the broader story of the ATB program and the series' design arc, see the Washington ATB series history.