2015 (P) Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge Quarter - Doubled Die Reverse VDDR-020

Description

VarietyVista's VDDR-020 on the 2015 America the Beautiful Quarter shares its diagnostic description — medium spread Northeast as extra blades of grass above the right end of the upper grass strip — with VDDR-021, raising the natural question of how two varieties with nearly identical descriptive language are differentiated. The answer lies in die-specific markers and subtle positional differences: although both exhibit northeast-directed medium spread in the same general area, each originated from a different working die with its own unique hub misalignment event, die scratches, flow lines, and wear characteristics. Die stages for VDDR-020 follow the standard three-stage format: Stage A at early die state (unconfirmed), Stage B with reverse and obverse at mid die state, and Stage C at late die state (unconfirmed). The provisional UVC and DMR codes (UVC-???? and DMR-0??) indicate this variety awaits full integration into the VarietyVista numbering system. Medium northeast spread creating extra grass blades means the secondary hub impression displaced the grass detail upward and to the right, and the phrase "above the right end" precisely locates the diagnostic zone at the rightward terminus of the upper grass strip rather than at its center or left end. Within the ATB Quarter DDR census, grass-area varieties dominate certain reverse designs where vegetation constitutes the primary organic detail, and the fine parallel blade structures amplify even medium-level displacement into clearly resolvable secondary images.

Die Markers

• UVC-????
• DMR-0??
• Stage A:
• EDS (unconfirmed)
• Stage B:
• Reverse and Obverse are
• MDS
• Stage C:
• LDS (unconfirmed)

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