AboutMyCoin1936-S Washington Quarter in VG8
A 1936-S Washington quarter graded VG8 is worth $17 to $19, from sales and public data. The grade below it is Good (G-6), and the same coin in that grade is worth less — how much less varies from date to date.
Very Good (VG-8)
$17 to $19
From sales and public data. Figure occasionally updated. Not an appraisal or declaration of worth or value.
What VG8 means
A 1936-S Washington quarter in Very Good (VG-8) is well worn but complete: the high points of Washington’s hair above and behind the ear are smooth, the eagle’s breast and the tops of its wings show the outline of the design and little inside it, and LIBERTY, IN GOD WE TRUST and the date stand clear of a full rim that runs unbroken round the coin.
A slab, a dealer’s list or a price guide may write this grade VG-8. They are the same grade and the same 1936-S Washington quarter.
Where this grade sits
The grades a 1936-S Washington quarter is given run from PO1 to MS70. One step up from VG8 is Very Good (VG-10). In general terms, the higher the grade the more the coin is worth.
A blank in the value column is a grade this site has not researched, not a grade the coin is worth nothing in.
← Good (G-6)Very Good (VG-10) →
What it sold for
No certified sale of a 1936-S Washington quarter in VG8 is recorded in the sources this site reads, which is what you would expect at this price: certifying a coin costs a large share of what this one is worth, so almost all of them change hands raw and unrecorded. The range above is what the published guides say rather than what anybody paid, and it is the weakest figure on this page.
How to check this yourself
Sold listings, not asking prices. The link below is already filtered to completed sales of a 1936-S Washington quarter in VG8, which is the difference between what somebody paid and what somebody hoped for. If what you find sits outside $17 to $19, trust what you found: it is newer than this page.
The metal floor under it
$11.64
0.1808 troy oz silver × $64.38 per troy ounce
$64.38/ozt, based on spot prices at 23 September 2026 19:59 UTC
Whatever the market does, a 1936-S Washington quarter cannot be worth less than the metal in it. That figure is what the premium for VG8 is measured against, and it moves with the metal price rather than with the coin market.
Where these figures come from
We gather publicly available data from several public sources including eBay, PCGS, NGC, Numista, USA Coin Book, PriceCharting, and others.
Not an appraisal. AboutMyCoin estimates from published specifications and does not authenticate or grade coins.
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