2012 Doubled Die Reverse WDDR-003

Description

Ranking as the third WDDR cataloged by the Wexler Team for the 2012-P Denali quarter, this variety was identified early in what became an extensive survey of hub-doubling anomalies on the Denali reverse design. Susan Gamble's composition features a Dall sheep — Alaska's state mammal — standing on a rocky promontory with North America's tallest peak in the distance, a design that compresses enormous topographical range into the quarter's 24.3mm diameter. The complex surface contours of the mountain's snowfields and the sheep's curling horns provide zones where even minor hub displacement creates identifiable doubled impressions. No cross-references beyond the Wexler catalog exist for this variety, and no specific die markers have been published — meaning attribution depends on matching the doubling pattern itself rather than confirming secondary diagnostics. The America the Beautiful program (2010-2021) generated unprecedented interest in quarter varieties, partly because each design appeared for only a single year, creating urgency among attributors to document varieties before production ended. The 2012-P Denali quarter's twelve-plus WDDR entries stand among the highest concentrations for any single ATB issue, reflecting both intensive production and thorough die variety research on this design.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Steven Bernatowicz Cross References: None known
• None known; Wexler Variety ID: 2012-P 25¢ AK WDDR-003
• Expert attribution by Wexler Team

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