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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;CamaroDMD, post: 4512280, member: 5233&quot;]Recently, I (half jokingly) made a post calling myself an &quot;unsophisticated numismatist&quot; because I don&#039;t seem to find the minor doubled dies or little variations very interesting...which is overall true.&nbsp; However, the more I thought about it...the more I realized that is not 100% true...as there is one coin that has peaked my interest in a less than macroscopic way.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have always loved the Washington Quarter (32-98)...and several years ago I became interested in the Type B reverse coins produced from 1956-1964.&nbsp; For those of you who don&#039;t know...the business strike Washington Quarter produced in silver from 1932-1964 for the most part had a single reverse...referred commonly as Type A (or as RDV-001).&nbsp; The first proof issue, 1936, had the same reverse.&nbsp; But, beginning in 1937 and continuing through 1964 (the end of the Philadelphia minted proofs), the proofs had an altered reverse which has commonly become known as Type B (RDV-002).&nbsp; However, for reasons I don&#039;t totally know, beginning in 1956, Type B reverses began appearing on a small number of business strike coins.&nbsp; I have always assumed these were refurbished proof reverse dies but I don&#039;t know for sure.&nbsp; Anyway, those were used in smallish numbers through 1964 on business strike coins...resulting in two reverse varieties from 1956-64 for Philadelphia minted business strike coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>As the coin transitioned into clad, a variety of other reverse varieties were used through the early 1970s.&nbsp; Based on what I have read; RDV-003 (Type C), RDV-004 (Type D), RDV-005 (Type E), RDV-006 (Type F), RDV-008 (Type M, aka Type G), and RDV-009 (Type H) were all used on coins minted from 1964-1972...different combinations of reverses in different years.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have been studying this...because the Washington Quarter is my favorite modern series and I would like to put together a fairly complete set (again, not gonna do DDOs, DDRs, RPMs for now)...but I want to include these various reverse varieties because I think it would be a fun hunt.</p><p><br /></p><p>I found some great information about them here: <a href="http://heartlandcoinclub.com/links.html#link14" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://heartlandcoinclub.com/links.html#link14" rel="nofollow">http://heartlandcoinclub.com/links.html#link14</a></p><p><br /></p><p>In the document from that site, it notes that RDV-009 was used on all 1973-1974 coins and RDV-010 was the Bicentennial reverse for 1975-76.&nbsp; So, not much to hunt for in those years.</p><p><br /></p><p>But, then it gets a little less informative and I haven&#039;t been able to find any really strong references for RDV-011 and later.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>That document states that RDV-011 on all 1977-1980 quarters (except the 1980-S proof) and that RDV-012 was used on all 1980-1985 quarters.&nbsp; So, I would assume that there is a 1980-P, 1980-D RDV-011 variety and a 1980-P, 1980-D RDV-012 variety.&nbsp; Does anyone here know if that has been confirmed at this point?&nbsp; Also, does anyone have any references for images of these types?</p><p><br /></p><p>The document then goes on to say that RDV-013 was used for all coins 1986 (including proofs) and that RDV-014 was all coins (including proofs) 1986-98.&nbsp; So, that leads me to believe that 1986-P/D/S exists as RDV-013 and RDV-014.&nbsp; Again, same questions.&nbsp; Has anyone confirmed this and does anyone here know the diagnostics to differentiate the later reverse varieties.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think this would be a fun project for me.&nbsp; I doubt it would break the bank but I would get to search and cherry pick the right coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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