2015-D Saratoga

Denver's 2015 Saratoga production reached 214,800,000 pieces, running 8 million behind Philadelphia's 223,000,000 for the same design and one of the narrower mint-to-mint mintage spreads in the 2015 lineup. The Saratoga issue closed the year's release schedule and was the only Revolutionary War subject in the entire 56-design ATB program, commemorating the October 1777 surrender of British General John Burgoyne to American General Horatio Gates. Barbara Fox's reverse, the surrender ceremony with Burgoyne handing over his sword, is the same composition used at Philadelphia and was struck from the same master dies.

Strike quality on the Denver issue tracks the broader 2015 Denver output, but the demanding figural composition makes this the most strike-sensitive 2015 design across both mints. Graders concentrate on the facial profiles, the uniform garment folds, and the sword detail when separating gem from near-gem, since worn dies flatten those fine human-figure elements first. The early die states produced cleaner figural rendering than the late-state output, which matters more here than on the year's wildlife and landscape designs. 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 sharply at MS68 because the figural design penalizes any strike weakness more visibly than landscape or wildlife motifs do. The historical subject has drawn cross-disciplinary collector interest from Revolutionary War buyers and history-focused numismatists, which has supported steady demand at all grade levels across both mints. Roll hunters in the northeastern and mid-Atlantic states still recover MS65 examples from original bank rolls. For the broader story of the ATB program and the series' design arc, see the Washington ATB series history.