1941 Doubled Die Reverse WDDR-002

Description

Second doubled die reverse attributed by the Wexler Team for the 1941 Lincoln Wheat Cent, this variety carries the designation 1941 1c WDDR-002 with no other known cross-references. The 1941 date marks the final full year of peacetime production before the December 7th attack on Pearl Harbor transformed American industry and Mint operations. Philadelphia struck hundreds of millions of cents in 1941, and the substantial die consumption generated multiple hub alignment varieties now documented by researchers. Victor David Brenner's wheat ears reverse — depicting two stalks of durum wheat framing the denomination and national inscriptions — was in its thirty-second year of continuous production and would continue through 1958. Doubled die reverses result from imprecise registration between successive hub impressions during die manufacture, where even microscopic shifts between impressions leave overlapping design features permanently embedded in the working die. Two DDRs cataloged for 1941 establishes a modest but meaningful set of reverse hub varieties for collectors pursuing comprehensive die variety documentation of pre-war Lincoln Wheat Cents. The historical context of 1941 — the year America entered World War II — adds significance beyond the purely numismatic, as these coins circulated through one of the most transformative periods in the nation's history.

Attribution History

• Wexler Variety ID: 1941 1¢ WDDR-002
• Expert attribution by Wexler Team

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