1938 Doubled Die Reverse WDDR-002

Description

Classified by CONECA as 4-O-V — Class V Pivoted Hub Doubling — this 1938 Philadelphia Mint Washington Quarter WDDR-002 records a hub alignment error from the seventh year of the denomination's production. John Flanagan designed the Washington Quarter for its 1932 introduction, commemorating the bicentennial of George Washington's birth, and the reverse features a heraldic eagle with spread wings perched atop a bundle of arrows — a design whose feather detail, arrow shafts, and surrounding legends provide multiple surfaces sensitive to hub displacement. The Class V designation means the hub tilted around a pivot point during die impression, producing doubling that radiates outward from the pivot center and increases in intensity with distance from that point. Cross-referenced as Wexler Variety ID 1938 25c WDDR-002, this Wexler Team attribution documents a specific die preparation error during the pre-war production years when Washington Quarters were struck in 90% silver. The pivoted hub mechanism produces a distinctive fan-shaped doubling pattern distinguishable from lateral or rotational classes.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Joe Feld Cross References: CONECA: 4-O-V
• CONECA: 4-O-V; Wexler Variety ID: 1938 25¢ WDDR-002
• Expert attribution by Wexler Team

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