2005 (P) West Virginia State Quarter - CU-25c-2005P-03R(WV) Cud

Description

CU-25c-2005P-03R(WV) is a reverse cud on the 2005 Philadelphia West Virginia State Quarter. Cuds on Coins assigned no additional cross-reference numbers, cataloging this as an independent die failure event separate from other reverse cuds recorded for this date-mint-state combination. The West Virginia reverse, featuring the New River Gorge Bridge — completed in 1977 as the world's longest single-span steel arch bridge at 1,700 feet — required deep die engraving to render the bridge's structural detail, the surrounding gorge topography, and the commemorative inscriptions. Deep engraving concentrates stress at design boundaries, and the bridge's span crossing the full width of the reverse field created structural stress lines in the die that may have increased fracture susceptibility at the rim. Philadelphia's State Quarter production in 2005 operated at high volume across multiple presses, and the West Virginia design entered production as the thirty-fifth state quarter in the program's sequence.

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