2009 Doubled Die Reverse WDDR-014

Description

Fourteenth in the Wexler catalog sequence for the 2009-P District of Columbia Quarter doubled die reverses, WDDR-014 joins a substantial family of hub doubling events cataloged on Don Everhart's Duke Ellington reverse design. The Wexler Team designation 2009-P 25c SF DC WDDR-014 and the "None known" cross-reference notation confirm this variety exists exclusively within the Wexler documentation system. The DC Quarter's reverse — depicting the legendary jazz musician and composer Duke Ellington seated at a piano with the Capitol dome rising behind him — features an unusual combination of figurative portraiture, musical instrument detail, architectural elements, and the inscription "Justice for All" that creates a textured design canvas uniquely suited to revealing hub doubling across multiple design types simultaneously. The fourteen-deep DDR population for the DC design demonstrates that the 2009 Philadelphia Mint quarter production generated enough working dies to produce a statistically notable frequency of hub misalignment events, each captured as a distinct WDDR entry with its own unique doubling direction, magnitude, and element distribution. Without specific die markers documented in the current entry, attribution of WDDR-014 versus its thirteen predecessors requires detailed comparison of the doubling characteristics — which design elements are affected, the angular direction of spread, and the separation magnitude — against the Wexler reference files. The DC and US Territories program's six-design production year compressed the manufacturing timeline for each design, and Philadelphia's output of DC quarters contributed to the working die population from which these fourteen varieties emerged.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Steven Bernatowicz Cross References: None known
• None known; Wexler Variety ID: 2009-P 25¢ SF DC WDDR-014
• Expert attribution by Wexler Team

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