2017 Doubled Die Reverse WDDR-017

Description

In the Wexler cataloging system, each WDDR number is assigned sequentially as new varieties are confirmed through examination and die study, and WDDR-017 for the Frederick Douglass quarter represents the seventeenth distinct die confirmed to carry reverse hub doubling. Attributed by the Wexler Team under Wexler Variety ID 2017-P 25c DC WDDR-017, this variety is part of a documentation effort that has made the Frederick Douglass quarter one of the most thoroughly researched issues in modern numismatics. Confirming a new WDDR requires demonstrating that the doubling pattern is distinct from all previously cataloged varieties. Douglass's impact extended beyond abolition: he advised President Lincoln, championed women's suffrage alongside Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and served in multiple government positions during Reconstruction. The quarter's reverse, with Douglass at his writing desk and Cedar Hill behind him, condenses these achievements into a composition that has proven remarkably productive for die variety research.

Attribution History

• Discovered by George W. Powell, Jr. Cross References: None known
• None known; Wexler Variety ID: 2017-P 25¢ DC WDDR-017
• Expert attribution by Wexler Team

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