1940-S DDO-003
1940 S Washington Quarter
Before you trust a marker match, read Die Markers Say Which Die. Do They Say Hub Doubling? - how to tell hub doubling from mechanical doubling and a repunched mint mark, and what a die marker does and does not prove.
| Class | V pivoted hub doubling |
| Spread | CW |
Doubled die Class V (pivoted hub doubling); clockwise spread
Die markers
The things that tell this die apart from every other die of the same date, other than the doubling itself. This is the list to work down with the coin in front of you.
- obverse: Obverse: Die scratches, horizontal.
- obverse: Obverse: Die marker, vertical, at the L of LIBERTY.
- obverse: Obverse: Die crack at the lower bust.
- reverse: Reverse: Die marker.
Also cataloged as
Checking the markers is the work
Every marker above is something you have to find on an actual coin, at an actual magnification. CoinScope Pro puts a real scale on the photograph so a spread is a number you can compare, and refuses to answer when the evidence will not carry it.
This is a reference, not an attribution. It narrows the field and names what each die is identified by; deciding that a coin is one of them is done with the coin under a lens, by a person, against the markers. Nothing here grades a coin or says it is genuine, and the wording is written from structured facts rather than copied from any catalog.
