2016 Doubled Die Reverse WDDR-004

Description

Cataloged by the Wexler Team as 2016-P 25-cent WV WDDR-004, this America the Beautiful Quarter featuring West Virginia's Harpers Ferry National Historical Park displays doubling in the windows within the arch above the center doorway across multiple rows: slightly in the second and third windows from the left in the bottom row, in the second and third windows from the left in the second row from the bottom, and slightly in the second window from the left in the third row from the bottom. No significant die markers have been noted on either the obverse or reverse, meaning attribution relies primarily on the precise window-by-window doubling pattern itself. No other cross-references are currently known. The Harpers Ferry reverse, designed by Thomas Hipschen and sculpted by Phebe Hemphill, depicts John Brown's Fort (the historic armory fire engine house) with its arched windows arranged in regular rows — architectural details that provide a grid-like reference system for mapping hub displacement across the die face. The multi-row, multi-window doubling pattern documents how the hub offset affected different vertical zones of the building facade, with the second and third windows from the left consistently showing the strongest displacement across all three affected rows. Struck at the Philadelphia Mint in copper-nickel clad composition at 5.67 grams and 24.3 mm diameter, this 2016 quarter requires careful 10x magnification examination of the individual window panes within the arch, comparing each window position against the documented doubling map.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Chris Rhodes Cross References: None known
• None known; Wexler Variety ID: 2016-P 25¢ WV WDDR-004
• Expert attribution by Wexler Team

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