1936 Lincoln Wheat Cent - Doubled Die Reverse DDR-013

Description

Light spread on PLURIBUS UNUM coupled with medium spread on the right wheat ear distinguishes this 1936 Philadelphia Mint Lincoln Wheat Cent doubled die reverse, the thirteenth cataloged DDR for this Depression-era date. VarietyVista records die markers UVC-1359 and DMR-026, with Stage A (EDS) and Stage C (LDS) unconfirmed, while Stage B shows both reverse and obverse in Mid Die State. The differential spread strength — light on the lettering but medium on the wheat ear — suggests the hub displacement was oriented in a direction that produced more visible doubling on the curved organic forms of the wheat stalk than on the more rectilinear letter shapes. This pattern is consistent with certain rotational or tilted hub alignments where the spread magnitude varies with position on the die face. The 1936 Lincoln Cent was struck during the Great Depression, produced during Franklin Roosevelt's first term as the New Deal programs reshaped the American economy. Philadelphia's output of approximately 309.6 million cents that year consumed numerous die pairs over the production run. Thirteen documented doubled die reverses for 1936 is a robust count that speaks to the systematic examination of Depression-era Wheat Cents by VarietyVista and other attribution services, and the combination of light lettering spread with more visible wheat ear doubling gives DDR-013 its own distinctive diagnostic profile.

Die Markers

• UVC-1359
• DMR-026
• Stage A:
• EDS (unconfirmed)
• Stage B:
• Reverse and Obverse are MDS
• Stage C:
• LDS (unconfirmed)

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