2013 Doubled Die Reverse WDDR-002

Description

Bearing the Wexler Team designation 2013-P 25-cent OH WDDR-002, this doubled die reverse belongs to the 2013 Philadelphia Mint Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial Quarter — the Ohio entry in the America the Beautiful program's fourth year, commemorating Oliver Hazard Perry's decisive naval victory on Lake Erie during the War of 1812. The reverse design by Don Everhart depicts the 352-foot Doric column memorial that stands on South Bass Island, and the monument's tall vertical lines and surrounding landscape elements provide a detailed canvas where hub-doubling evidence can be expressed on fine design features that might otherwise go unnoticed on less intricate reverse compositions. The WDDR-002 designation as the second cataloged doubled die reverse for this date and mint suggests that the Perry's Memorial reverse die production generated multiple working dies with detectable hub misalignment — a pattern consistent with the ATB program's high-volume die production requirements, where the Philadelphia Mint prepared dozens of working dies for each design to sustain the pace of quarterly design changes across 2010-2021. Struck in copper-nickel clad at 5.67 grams, the 2013-P Perry's Memorial Quarter joined four other ATB releases that year: White Mountain (New Hampshire), Great Basin (Nevada), Fort McHenry (Maryland), and Mount Rushmore (South Dakota). The Ohio connection gives this issue particular resonance with Great Lakes regional collectors, and doubled die varieties from mid-program ATB issues like this 2013 release occupy an interesting space in the variety market — recent enough to be affordable yet old enough that the initial production quantities have been largely absorbed into circulation or bulk storage.

Attribution History

• s:; Wexler Variety ID: 2013-P 25¢ OH WDDR-002
• Expert attribution by Wexler Team

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