One Dot - Two Dot

NOW I get it! Thanks castor.Like most I was looking at the maple leaf veins too.Now I've got to go through all those quarters AGAIN

OK, now I see it. COOL!!

I went through mine and found some are distinctly one dot, some two and some the dots are overlapping so it looks like one elongated or oblong dot. Has anyone counted all the "other" dots? Or looked at other colourised quarters?

I counted the dots on my 2004 and 2008 poppies (the dots that project inwards from each corner towards the centre of the poppy) and found in 2004 there are 3 dots and 2008 there are 2 dots. Anyone have different?

I feel this dot difference constitutes a second variety, would anyone disagree?

So there are at least three different 'stamped or painted' designs, does this mean a different type or does the physical metal of a coin typically need to be different to constitute this? I ask because for example on the colored Olympic quarters the stamping/painting had a lot of variance but I don't recall anyone saying they were different types, perhaps because there were no patterns such as in this case?

The other thing- on the 2 dots variety the horizontal lines have even numbers of dots on both sides of the centre section, while the one dot variety has a larger number of dots (7, rather than 5) on the outside (both left and right). The placement of the dots on the poppy seems to vary, too, but this I put down to randomness, with the poppy put down first, then the dots applied later, in another pass.