1936-D Washington Quarter. MS-67+ (PCGS). CAC. This is an exceptionally smooth and attractive example of a conditionally challenging Denver Mint Washington quarter issue. Otherwise brilliant, the obverse exhibits a crescent of copper-rose, powder blue and reddish-gold colors along the lower and right borders. The reverse is untoned apart from a few blushes of copper-russet around the periphery. Intensely frosted in finish with a razor sharp strike, this coin would serve as a highlight in the finest Washington quarter cabinet.After only the 1932-D and 1932-S (and excluding varieties), the 1936-D is the rarest quarter of this design type in Gem Mint State preservation. As a Superb Gem the 1936-D is highly elusive; the present example unsurpassed in a PCGS holder. Mintage: 5,374,000 coins. From Heritages CSNS Signature Sale of May 2004, lot 7214.
