2013-P Mount Rushmore

The 2013-P Mount Rushmore closed the 2013 ATB year and recorded the highest single-design Philadelphia ATB mintage produced to that point in the series. Philadelphia struck 231,800,000 pieces, more than ten times the lowest 2012 P-mint figure and well above any prior year's ceiling. Don Everhart's reverse shows the four presidents (Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Roosevelt) mid-carving, with a sculptor and tools visible in the foreground, an unusual editorial choice that captures the monument as work-in-progress rather than as the finished tourist image most viewers carry in their heads. The actual carving ran from 1927 to 1941 under Gutzon Borglum and his son Lincoln.

Strike quality concentrates on the four presidential portraits and the sculptor figure in the foreground. Look for facial definition on each of the four heads, particularly Roosevelt who sits back from the rock face and tends to flatten first under late-die-state strikes. The sculptor figure is the secondary anchor and is where the first soft-strike penalty typically lands. The clad composition (75% copper-nickel outer layers over a pure copper core, 5.67 grams, 24.26 mm) is the standard since 1965, so authentication is functionally a non-issue and the high-grade market runs through PCGS (Professional Coin Grading Service) and NGC slabs. Roll hunters can find MS65 examples in original P-mint rolls without significant effort, and even MS66 surfaces in roll-search yields.

This is a Regular-classification issue and trades as one of the most available dates in the entire ATB series, reflecting the 231.8 million mintage. Population reports at MS67 and MS68 are deep, with MS69 examples surfacing through ongoing submissions. Pricing stays modest through MS67 and real premium spend on the issue makes sense only at MS68+ in coins with full strike across all four faces and the foreground sculptor. The work-in-progress design has given the issue a small specialist following among collectors who chase coins depicting the act of making rather than the finished object. For the broader story of the ATB program and the series' design arc, see the Washington ATB series history.