📖 Definitive Reference – Expanded 3rd edition delivers a comprehensive history of Washington quarters from their 1932 debut to today’s modern programs.
💰 Values & Market Trends – Features updated market values using Red Book Quarterly Retail pricing, plus GSID catalog numbers linking coins across Whitman Brands products.
🔍 Grading & Varieties – Includes a grading guide, details on Proofs, Special Mint Set issues, errors, and smart buying strategies for collectors.
🖼️ Rich Illustrations – Packed with over 750 full-color photos and more than 850 coin listings, highlighting key dates, design changes, and collectible varieties.
⭐ Essential for Collectors & Investors – Covers Bicentennial, Statehood, Territorial, D.C., America the Beautiful, Crossing the Delaware, and American Women quarters—ideal for both new and advanced collectors.
Washington Quarters, expanded and updated in an all-new third edition, is an in-depth study of our nation's most popular modern coin. It features the colorful historical research that readers expect from Q. David Bowers, including a biography of the United States' first president, the early years of the quarter dollar, and the history of the Washington quarter series starting in 1932. Each coin is introduced year by year, from 1932 to 1998, and focuses a comprehensive section on the last 25 years’ worth of modern programs.
Packed with over 850 listings, all new issues since 2017, updated market values using industry-standard Red Book Quarterly Retail pricing, Greysheet Identification (GSID) catalog numbers that identify and link a coin across the entire family of Whitman Brands products, circulating, Proof, and Special Mint Set coins and a detailed history of modern programs, this in-depth study has everything for beginners through advanced collectors.
Inside you'll find:
- Over 750 color images
- Updated market values based on Red Book Quarterly retail prices
- Grading guide
- Secrets of being a smart buyer
- Bicentennial, State, Territorial, D.C., America the Beautiful, Crossing the Deleware, and American Women series
- And much more!
"The only book I have authored is the Complete Guide to Washington Quarters (1994). As CEO and Publisher at Whitman, my career has come full circle, and I am honored to add my voice (and pricing!) to the 2025 edition of such a rich reference work on a coin series that is very near and dear to me.” -from the foreword by John Feigenbaum, CEO/President of Whitman Brands
Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of America’s longest-running 25-cent coinage with the all-new third edition of Washington Quarters, part of Whitman’s renowned Red Book Series. This acclaimed series spans nearly 30 volumes, each providing in-depth coverage of specific U.S. coin types and programs featured in the Official Red Book.
This in-depth study of America's most popular modern coins has everything for beginner through advanced collectors:
Over 750 color images * updated market values * a grading guide * secrets of being a smart buyer * Bicentennial, State, Territorial, D.C., America the Beautiful, Crossing the Deleware, and American Women series * and much more!
