2008 (P) Arizona State Quarter - SKH-25c-2008P-01(AZ) Spiked Head

Description

Documenting a die crack on the final year of the 50 State Quarters program, this spiked head for the 2008 Philadelphia Mint Arizona State Quarter captures a variety from the program's closing chapter. Arizona was the forty-eighth state honored, its reverse featuring the Grand Canyon with a saguaro cactus and the inscription "Grand Canyon State." The spike is on the obverse, where a crack in the Washington die ran from the rim into the bust and created a raised spike on Washington's portrait. The "(AZ)" designation identifies the specific State Quarter reverse within the 2008 production year, which also included Oklahoma, New Mexico, Alaska, and Hawaii as the program's final five honorees. SKH-25c-2008P-01(AZ) was cataloged on October 1, 2020, by Cuds on Coins. The 2008 State Quarters hold end-of-series significance, as the program concluded its decade-long run of issuing five new designs annually. Spiked heads from the program's final year carry a bookend quality, complementing the 1999 inaugural-year varieties that began the spiked head documentation for this groundbreaking series.

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• Cross reference: none. 10/01/2020.

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