2009 Doubled Die Reverse WDDR-018

Description

Highest in the currently known Wexler catalog sequence for the 2009-P District of Columbia Quarter doubled die reverses, WDDR-018 marks the eighteenth documented hub doubling event on Don Everhart's Duke Ellington reverse. The Wexler Team designation 2009-P 25c SF DC WDDR-018 carries no known cross-references beyond the primary catalog listing. As the terminal entry in the sequence at the time of documentation, WDDR-018 establishes the current upper boundary of known DDR varieties for the DC Quarter — though future discoveries may extend the sequence further. The DC Quarter reverse design stands apart from both the preceding State Quarter reverses and the subsequent America the Beautiful reverses in its emphasis on a single historical figure rendered in detailed portraiture, with Duke Ellington's hands on the piano keys providing fine detail where hub doubling can produce visible displacement on the individual key edges. The "Justice for All" motto, positioned as a text element separate from the standard E PLURIBUS UNUM, adds an additional textual diagnostic surface not present on other quarter designs. Without documented die markers or specific spread descriptions in this entry, attribution requires reference to the Wexler catalog's full variety files, where the direction, magnitude, and affected design elements are recorded for each of the eighteen numbered varieties. The eighteen documented DDRs across a single quarter design reflect both the intensity of modern variety attribution efforts and the volume of Philadelphia Mint die consumption for the 2009 DC and US Territories program, where each design's compressed production window generated substantial die turnover.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Steven Bernatowicz Cross References: None known
• None known; Wexler Variety ID: 2009-P 25¢ SF DC WDDR-018
• Expert attribution by Wexler Team

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