2015 (P) Homestead National Monument of America Quarter - Doubled Die Reverse DDR-037

Description

Medium westward hub doubling in the upper window R3 of the 2015 America the Beautiful quarter reverse marks this doubled die reverse cataloged by VarietyVista for the date. DDR-037 is on an ATB quarter, and each year's unique scenic reverses (five a year through 2020, one in 2021) provided abundant fine detail susceptible to hub doubling. Window R3 refers to a specific window position in the cabin's window grid on the 2015 Homestead National Monument of America reverse, and the westward directional spread indicates the hub shifted laterally during the second hubbing impression. Die stage documentation records UVC-2136, DMR-038, with Stage A showing both reverse and obverse at early die state, Stage B at mid die state (unconfirmed), and Stage C at late die state (unconfirmed). The ATB program ran from 2010 through 2021, producing quarters at both Philadelphia and Denver (plus San Francisco for collector editions), and the combined output across ten-plus years generated thousands of die pairs. Architectural windows on quarter reverses are among the design elements most sensitive to hub doubling because their rectangular geometry makes even slight displacement visible.

Die Markers

• UVC-2136
• DMR-038
• Stage A:
• Reverse and Obverse are EDS
• Stage B:
• MDS (unconfirmed)
• Stage C:
• LDS (unconfirmed)

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