2004 (P) Iowa State Quarter - Doubled Die Reverse WDDR-002

Description

Designated Wexler 2004-P 25c IA WDDR-002, this Philadelphia Mint Iowa State Quarter doubled die reverse belongs to the 50 State Quarters program. The Iowa Quarter reverse, designed by John Mercanti, depicts a one-room schoolhouse with a teacher and students planting a tree, based on Grant Wood's painting "Arbor Day" — a pastoral composition whose fine parallel lines and architectural details provide fertile ground for detecting hub doubling. For the 2004-P Iowa issue, this variety records a distinct die preparation error separate from WDDR-001, confirming that multiple reverse dies received flawed secondary hub impressions during manufacture. The 50 State Quarters program, running from 1999 through 2008, generated public interest in circulating coinage. Philadelphia struck hundreds of millions of Iowa Quarters in 2004, and doubled die varieties from this massive production run reward the persistent cherrypicker who examines rolls and bags with attention to the schoolhouse windows and the tree-planting figures where doubling typically appears.

Cross References

• None known; Wexler Variety ID: 2004-P 25¢ IA WDDR-002

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