2014-P Everglades

The 2014-P Everglades closed the fifth ATB year with the only Florida site honored in the program and the only design in the 2014 lineup focused on a single bird subject rather than a landscape or human-element composition. Joseph Menna's reverse shows an anhinga perched on a stump with its wings spread and its head turned toward the water, the precise moment before the dive that gives the species its informal name of "snakebird." Philadelphia struck 142,400,000 pieces, sitting in the middle of the year's mintage band and below the same year's Arches and Shenandoah Philadelphia outputs. Denver's 166,600,000 for the design ran 24 million ahead at the same site.

Strike quality on the issue runs solid through the central anhinga figure, with the spread wing feathers and the bird's body contour generally well struck through the early die states. Grading services watch the individual primary feathers and the stump's wood-grain texture when separating MS66 from MS67. The bird's eye and beak detail are also useful die-state indicators, since worn dies tend to soften those small areas first. The clad composition (75% copper-nickel over a pure copper core, 5.67 grams, 24.26 mm) follows the standard quarter formula in use since 1965, so counterfeit risk is functionally nil. The high-grade market runs through PCGS (the Professional Coin Grading Service) and NGC slabs; roll hunters working original Philadelphia rolls still pull MS65 examples without much trouble.

As a collecting target, this is a Regular-classification issue where the registry market lives at MS67 and above. Population reports thin sharply at MS68 and prices step up to match, with the certified count typically running in the low hundreds at that grade. The anhinga subject has drawn its own small following among wildlife-focused collectors and birders who buy ATB designs in a thematic rather than series-completist mode. Set builders chasing a complete 2014 Philadelphia run typically buy raw or MS66-slabbed examples and reserve real money for MS68 placement coins. For the broader story of the ATB program and the series' design arc, see the Washington ATB series history.