2002 (P) Tennessee State Quarter - SKH-25c-2002P-01(TN) Spiked Head

Description

Tennessee's entry in the State Quarter spiked head record, SKH-25c-2002P-01(TN) was first reported on March 29, 2022, on the 2002 Philadelphia Mint issue. Tennessee's State Quarter reverse is musically themed, featuring a fiddle, a trumpet, and a guitar representing the state's three musical traditions — Appalachian music, blues, and country — with the text "Musical Heritage" and three stars for the state's three grand divisions. The spike itself is on the Washington obverse: a crack in the obverse die ran from the rim into the bust and produced a raised spike on Washington's portrait. As the sole documented spiked head for the 2002-P Tennessee quarter, this variety represents the only confirmed cracked die of this kind for this state-and-mint combination. The relatively late reporting date of March 2022 — twenty years after the coins were struck — suggests that either the variety was only recently identified or that previous discoveries had not been formally submitted to the catalog. Tennessee was the sixteenth state released in the 50 State Quarters program, part of the 2002 roster alongside Ohio, Louisiana, Indiana, and Mississippi. Cataloged by Cuds on Coins with no established cross-references, SKH-25c-2002P-01(TN) documents the spiked head on the Washington obverse paired with a reverse design capturing Tennessee's cultural identity in a composition that translates the energy of live music performance into numismatic art.

Cross References

• Cross reference: none. 03/29/2022.

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