2014-S ATB Shenandoah Quarter : History & Value

By Charles Morgan and Hubert Walker for CoinWeek Notes …..
The 2014-S Shenandoah Nationwide Park Quarter is a non-circulating authorized tender quarter produced by the United States Mint completely for the collector market. Struck in the identical copper-nickel clad composition with an similar end because the circulation strikes produced on the Philadelphia and Denver mints, the San Francisco Mint model provided collectors one other coin to chase within the long-running America the Stunning Quarters Program, from which the 2014-S Shenandoah Nationwide Park Quarter is the twenty second coin within the 56-coin sequence.

The Shenandoah Nationwide Park was established on December 26, 1935, and boasts lots of of miles of climbing trails and almost 80,000 acres of protected wilderness. Skyline Drive and a 101-mile leg of the Appalachian Path are two of the park’s most well-known sights. Situated simply an hour from Washington, D.C., the park attracts greater than one million guests yearly.

The coin’s obverse options a gorgeous modification of John Flanagan’s unique Washington Quarter design. Flanagan primarily based his portrait of Washington on the bust created by French artist Jean-Antoine Houdon, which is at the moment displayed on the Mount Vernon Customer’s Heart. The quarter’s reverse depicts a hiker taking within the view from the summit of Little Stony Man.

Shenandoah Nationwide Park Quarter Goes On Sale

The Official Launch Ceremony for the Shenandoah Nationwide Park quarter was held at Skyline Excessive Faculty in Entrance Royal, Virginia, at 10 a.m. Japanese on Friday, April 4.

U.S. Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Virginia Secretary of Pure Sources Molly Ward joined Mint Deputy Director Richard Peterson and Shenandoah Nationwide Park Superintendent Jim Northrup on the occasion. On the ceremony, attendees might purchase rolls of the brand new quarters at face worth.

4 days earlier, america Mint started providing business-strike Shenandoah Nationwide Park Quarters from the Philadelphia, Denver, and San Francisco Mints on the market on its web site. The Philadelphia and Denver cash have been struck for circulation and will have been acquired at face worth from banks.

The Mint provided a number of circulation strike choices, charging a surcharge for every.

• Two-roll Philadelphia and Denver bundles have been offered for $32.95 ($20 face worth).
• Particular person rolls of San Francisco Mint cash have been provided for $18.95 ($10 face worth. These cash weren’t launched into circulation).
• Three-roll Philadelphia, Denver, and San Francisco bundles have been offered for $46.95 ($30 face worth).
• 100-Coin baggage from Philadelphia, Denver, and San Francisco are provided for $34.95 every ($25 face worth).

On April 8, the Mint provided collectors the chance to purchase a three-coin set of circulation strike Shenandoah Quarters for $9.95 + $4.95 delivery.

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Market Knowledge and Noteworthy Specimens

Solely two main grading companies (NGC and PCGS) have licensed 2014-S Shenandoah Nationwide Park Quarter examples. Between NGC and PCGS, about 1,000 cash have been submitted, most of which landed in NGC MS67 or MS67PL holders. Apparently, most of those cash will need to have been offered in the course of the coin’s launch window, as there may be little or no public sale information to type by way of. eBay supplies a database of searchable gross sales that concluded solely inside the final 90 days. Cash like this sometimes should not consigned to Stack’s Bowers or Heritage–and even GreatCollections, which focuses on extra fashionable fare, solely reviews six transactions, the final being in December 2023.

GreatCollections did promote one of many 19 NGC MS68PLs on April 29, 2018. This instance introduced $75.38.

It’s doubtless that in the course of the launch interval, examples in the identical grade have been offered on eBay for extra. eBay reveals three transactions in March 2024 for PCGS First Strike examples in MS63, MS64, MS65, and MS66 (a virtually full grading set). Aside from the MS63, which offered for $1.25, every offered for $1.75 plus $3.99 delivery. Contemplating the price of encapsulating these cash, these gross sales outcomes should not good.

Rolls and baggage of the 2014-S promote at costs near or barely above their 2014 concern value. Buying the 2014-S Shenandoah Nationwide Park Quarter on this format appears essentially the most promising possibility, because the premium is pretty near the coin’s face worth. The general public’s curiosity within the America the Stunning Quarters Program might want to enhance dramatically for this coin to understand any actual worth positive factors – this gained’t occur in a single day and may not occur for many years.

High Inhabitants: PCGS MS70 (3, 2/2025), NGC MS68PL (19, 2/2025), and CAC None Graded (2/2025).

• PCGS MS67: 31389289: eBay, February 20, 2025 – $66.95.
• NGC MS68PL #3911491-004: “The Centurion Assortment,” GreatCollections, April 29, 2018, Lot 543894 – $75.38.

Design

Obverse:

Based mostly on the John Flanagan design, George Washington is centered on the coin and faces left. JF’s initials on the bust truncation. Wrapping across the design, near the rim, on the high: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; on the backside: QUARTER DOLLAR. LIBERTY is inscribed horizontally to the left of Washington’s neck. IN GOD WE TRUST is inscribed to the best of Washington’s hair in a stacked configuration. The mintmark denotes the mint of manufacture; on this occasion, a P mint mark for Philadelphia is positioned above the R in DOLLAR.

Reverse:

A lone hiker (carrying a backpack) seems to be out at a vista of the Shenandoah Mountains from the 4,000-foot-high summit of Little Stony Man. A climbing path and the peaks’ rocky and watery surfaces are faithfully depicted, together with three seen timber within the distance. This scene is framed by a large border on which is inscribed SHENANDOAH, VIRGINIA, E PLURIBUS UNUM, and 2014. Designer Phebe Hemphill’s initials “PH” are positioned close to the rightward edge, above the US of PLURIBUS.

Edge:

The sting of the 2014-S Shenandoah Nationwide Park Quarter is reeded.

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Coin Specs

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