Wexler's Die Varieties - Major 2000-P Virgina Quarter DDO Reported

A fairly major find came across my desk this week and I felt it was worthy of a little more promotion than just quietly putting it up on the website.

A very strong Class IV DDO, now listed as 2000-P 25¢ VA WDDO-001, shows a strong spread to the NE on the right obverse. This class of doubling is very unusual for the single-squeeze era, but not unprecedented. A similar extreme Class IV DDO is known on the proof Pennsylvania quarters (1999-S 25¢ Pr PA WDDO-001).

The early State Quarters are often overlooked for the lack of known doubled dies and also for how common severe Die Deterioration Doubling is (which makes spotting doubled dies even harder). But this find shows there maybe some really nice varieties still waiting to be discovered after 25 years of circulation.

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2000-P 25¢ VA WDDO-001

Description: Strong Class IV doubling to the NE shows on the right side of the obverse. Doubling is strongest on IGWT, AMERICA, the knot of the queue, and the upper hair detail. Doubling also visible on the mintmark, STATES OF, DOLLAR, and the last letters of LIBERTY.

Die Markers: Obverse: Die crack through the designers' initials JF WC with a die chip left of the J. Die damage behind and below the ear. Reverse: Die gouge right of the top of the R in PLURIBUS.

Submitted By: Eric Schmidt

Cross References: None known