2014-D Everglades

Denver's 2014 Everglades production reached 166,600,000 pieces, running 24 million ahead of Philadelphia's 142,400,000 for the same design and restoring the year's standard Denver-leads-Philadelphia pattern after the Arches and Great Sand Dunes inversions a few months earlier. Joseph Menna's reverse, the anhinga perched on a stump with wings spread and head turned toward the water, is the same composition used at Philadelphia and was struck from the same master dies. The Florida site was the only southeastern-coast National Park honored in the 2014 lineup, which gave the design a regional anchor distinct from the year's western and southern Appalachian subjects.

Strike quality on the Denver issue tracks the broader 2014 Denver output: well struck on the central bird figure through the early die states, with predictable softening on the individual primary feathers and the wood-grain texture of the stump as dies aged. Graders concentrate on the anhinga's wing detail and the bird's eye and beak when separating gem from near-gem. The clad composition (75% copper-nickel over a pure copper core, 5.67 grams total) matches every Washington quarter struck since 1965, and counterfeit risk is functionally nil for circulation-strike modern clad. The high-grade market runs through PCGS and NGC; raw examples in the MS65 to MS66 band still turn up in original Denver bank rolls.

This is a Regular-classification issue where the action sits at MS67 and above. Population counts step down meaningfully at MS68, with the Denver issue typically pricing alongside its Philadelphia counterpart in slabbed grades. The wildlife subject has helped support steady collector interest in the Everglades design across both mints, particularly among thematic buyers focused on bird and animal motifs. Roll hunters in the southeastern and Gulf coast states still report occasional MS65 cherry-picks from original bank rolls, though yield has thinned since the design's release year. For the broader story of the ATB program and the series' design arc, see the Washington ATB series history.