2009 Doubled Die Reverse WDDR-013

Description

Preceding WDDR-014 and WDDR-017 in the Wexler catalog sequence, WDDR-013 on the 2009-P District of Columbia Quarter represents the thirteenth documented doubled die reverse for Don Everhart's Duke Ellington design. The Wexler Team designation 2009-P 25c SF DC WDDR-013 carries no known cross-references, placing this variety's documentation exclusively within the Wexler system. As the thirteenth entry, WDDR-013 sits within a growing catalog that eventually extended to at least WDDR-018, demonstrating sustained variety discovery across the DC Quarter's production run. The reverse design's distinctive composition — Duke Ellington's seated figure at the piano, the Capitol dome rising in the background, and the "Justice for All" inscription — creates a multi-layered design surface where hub doubling can register differently on figurative, architectural, and textual elements within the same variety. The piano keys, in particular, provide a regular geometric pattern analogous to a ruler, where even subtle hub displacement produces measurable offset between the primary and secondary key images. Without documented die markers or specific spread descriptions in this entry, attribution of WDDR-013 against its twelve predecessors and at least five successors demands reference to the Wexler catalog's detailed measurements. The 2009 DC and US Territories Quarter program marked the transition year between the State Quarter era and the America the Beautiful series, and the six-design production schedule compressed Philadelphia's manufacturing timeline. Each of the DC Quarter's documented DDRs represents an independent working die that received a misaligned secondary hub impression during manufacture.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Brett L. Parrish Cross References: None known
• None known; Wexler Variety ID: 2009-P 25¢ SF DC WDDR-013
• Expert attribution by Wexler Team

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