2025 VDDO VDDO-003

Description

Third VarietyVista doubled die obverse documented for the 2025 American Women Quarter, this variety shows a medium spread West on the D of GOD, the inner middle of the queue (hair ribbon), and the hair curls on the obverse portrait. Die markers are pending full assignment (UVC-???? and DMR-00?), with Stage A showing both the obverse and reverse in early die state (EDS), and Stages B (MDS) and C (LDS) unconfirmed. The 2025 date represents the final year of the American Women Quarters program (2022-2025), which honored notable American women on rotating reverse designs while retaining a portrait of George Washington on the obverse. Three documented DDOs for a coin struck in 2025 demonstrates the remarkable speed of modern die variety research, where new varieties are identified and cataloged within months or even weeks of a coin's release. The medium West spread on the D of GOD and the hair detail indicates a lateral hub displacement during die preparation, and the queue and curl areas of Washington's portrait serve as sensitive indicators because the fine parallel lines of engraved hair amplify even slight displacement into visible doubling. The American Women Quarter program concluded the multi-decade run of circulating quarter reverse programs that began with the State Quarters in 1999.

Die Markers

• UVC-????
• DMR-00?
• Stage A:
• Obverse and Reverse are
• EDS
• Stage B:
• MDS (unconfirmed)
• Stage C:
• LDS (unconfirmed)

Attribution History

• Discovered by Steve Bernatowicz
• Expert attribution by VarietyVista

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