2015 Doubled Die Reverse DDR-038

Description

Very strong northwest spread in window R3 extends into the adjacent window R2 on the 2015 Homestead National Monument quarter, making DDR-038 one of the more dramatic doubled die reverses documented for this America the Beautiful release. VarietyVista assigns die markers UVC-2137 and DMR-039, with Stage A showing both reverse and obverse in Early Die State (EDS) and Stages B and C at Mid and Late Die State unconfirmed. The "very strong" spread designation indicates that the doubling is potentially visible to the unaided eye on well-struck specimens — a meaningful distinction in a series where most doubled die varieties require at least 5x magnification to detect. The fact that the spread crosses from window R3 into the neighboring R2 zone indicates a substantial hub displacement during the die-making process, affecting a wider area of the cabin design than the more typical single-window varieties. The Homestead quarter commemorates the Homestead Act of 1862, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, which opened up western settlement by granting 160 acres of public land to any citizen willing to live on and improve it for five years. The ATB quarter program's detailed pictorial reverses — this one depicting a frontier cabin, a family of settlers, and their agricultural surroundings — provide a rich landscape of design elements where hub doubling can be detected and precisely located, making the ATB series a fertile area for doubled die discovery.

Die Markers

• UVC-2137
• DMR-039
• Stage A:
• Reverse and Obverse are EDS
• Stage B:
• MDS (unconfirmed)
• Stage C:
• LDS (unconfirmed)

Attribution History

• Discovered by William Wood
• Expert attribution by VarietyVista

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