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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CamaroDMD, post: 24692882, member: 5233&quot;]Here are a few more.&nbsp; This is starting to get into the era of Washington Quarters that really interest me.&nbsp; The reverse die varieties (RDV) found on quarters beginning in the mid 1950s and running into the early 1970s have really drawn me to this set as well as the wonder aesthetics of the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a few I photographed yesterday.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/8pKUPqA.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/ZTIXKZ0.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/THCKCFm.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>So, to explain the RDV-001 and RDV-002...you have to go back to the original design of the coin.&nbsp; The RDV-001 reverse is the original business strike reverse.&nbsp; It was used on Washington Quarters throughout the entire silver coinage run (32-64).&nbsp; However, beginning with the second year of proof production (1937), a modified design was found on the reverse.&nbsp; The proof reverse not only features greater detail as you would expect on all proofs...but also a slightly different design.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is all normal and to be expected...except beginning in 1956, the proof reverse started appearing on a small number of business strikes.&nbsp; The true reason for this is unknown (theories range from the wrong hub being used to produce the die, to defective proof dies being recycled for business strike production, to simply a mistake being made resulting in the wrong die being used).&nbsp; Whatever the reason, from 1956-1964 a small subset of Philadelphia business strikes feature the proof reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>Those of us who dive deep into this refer to these as RDV-001 and RDV-002 (001 being the standard reverse and 002 being the proof reverse).&nbsp; As this is a well known variety, they are more commonly referred to as &quot;Type A&quot; and &quot;Type B&quot; quarters respectively.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are a number of diagnostics to differentiate these coins.&nbsp; For me, the simplest is the spacing between the &quot;E&quot; and &quot;S&quot; in STATES on the reverse.&nbsp; I always start here and if I find one with the wider gap of a RDV-002, I check further from there.&nbsp; See below:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/haIcgZo.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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