2000 (P) New Hampshire State Quarter - SKH-25c-2000P-01(NH) Spiked Head

Description

Documenting a spiked head on the 2000-P New Hampshire State Quarter, SKH-25c-2000P-01(NH) records a die gouge near Washington's portrait on the ninth state design released in the 50 State Quarters Program. New Hampshire's reverse depicts the Old Man of the Mountain — the iconic granite profile in Franconia Notch that tragically collapsed in May 2003, three years after the quarter's release, making these coins an unintentional memorial to a lost natural landmark. Spiked heads on State Quarters always appear on the common obverse rather than the unique state reverse, since Washington's portrait was shared across all fifty designs from a standardized hub. This means spiked head varieties are distinguished purely by which specific working die sustained the damage, regardless of which state reverse was paired with it. Philadelphia Mint, copper-nickel clad planchets. Cataloged and verified by Cuds on Coins.

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• Cross reference: none. 05/03/2017.

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