2019-D War in the Pacific

Denver's 2019 War in the Pacific mintage came in at 163,200,000 pieces, lower than the Philadelphia figure and the second 2019 design (along with American Memorial) where Denver trailed the eastern mint. The pattern likely reflects Federal Reserve order weighting tied to the Pacific-territory subject matter, with eastern districts taking heavier allocations. David Westwood's reverse shows Allied soldiers wading ashore at a Pacific landing, helmets and weapons silhouetted against the surf. The composition is the most kinetic in the 2019 lineup and the only design from the year that depicts active combat-era scenery rather than memorial or landscape. The D mintmark sits just right of Washington's queue in the standard ATB position.

Production characteristics at Denver during the 2019 cycle render the figure outlines slightly fuller than Philadelphia, with helmet shapes and rifle silhouettes coming up crisper on side-by-side comparison. Die-wear sequence runs the wave texture first, then the helmets, then the rifle detail. A coin with sharp helmets and softer wave texture is middle die state and almost always grades MS66 at PCGS, the Professional Coin Grading Service, or NGC. MS67 examples require all three elements to register cleanly, which the design's relief density makes a meaningful threshold. The clad composition runs 75% copper-nickel over a pure copper core at 5.67 grams, the standard ATB recipe. Authentication is not a date-level concern; clad quarters are uneconomic to counterfeit.

The 2019-D War in the Pacific is a Regular classification entry, common raw and through MS66 and turning into a condition rarity at MS68. The 2019-W release for the same design, 2 million pieces from the first West Point circulating coinage in U.S. history, sits in a separate catalog tier. Population reports show the D-mint moderately available at MS67, with the curve thinning above. Registry collectors building the 56-coin clad run pair the P and D 2019 War in the Pacific as a single tier. For the broader story of the ATB program and the series' design arc, see the Washington ATB series history.