2017 Doubled Die Reverse WDDR-013

Description

Cataloged by the Wexler Team under reference 2017-P 25c MO WDDR-013, this thirteenth doubled die reverse for the 2017-P Ozark National Scenic Riverways Quarter sits in the middle tier of a variety family that ultimately reached at least twenty-one documented entries. The Ozark Riverways design, celebrating Missouri's protected waterway system, features a canoeist on a river framed by towering limestone bluffs and dense forest — a scene rendered by Ronald D. Sanders and Joseph Menna with the kind of fine topographic detail that makes ATB quarter reverses particularly productive territory for doubled die attribution. Thirteen distinct DDR varieties from a single quarter design speaks to both the enormous die consumption inherent in modern quarter production and the systematic diligence of variety specialists who survey newly released coins. Hub doubling on scenic reverses like the Ozark design tends to concentrate where the design relief changes most rapidly — cliff edges, waterline boundaries, tree silhouettes — because these high-contrast transitions make even subtle displacement visible as shifted contour lines. Struck at the Philadelphia Mint on copper-nickel clad planchets weighing 5.67 grams at 24.3 mm diameter, these quarters circulated widely, and WDDR-013 specimens can surface in unsearched rolls with patience and appropriate magnification. No cross-references beyond the Wexler system are known for this variety.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Amy Antone Cross References: None known
• None known; Wexler Variety ID: 2017-P 25¢ MO WDDR-013
• Expert attribution by Wexler Team

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