1948-D Repunched Mintmark WRPM-039

Description

Closing in on forty documented repunched mint marks, the 1948-D Lincoln Wheat Cent RPM catalog under WRPM-039 reflects the extraordinary depth of die variety research applied to this postwar Denver issue. Attributed by the Wexler Team under Wexler Variety ID 1948-D 1¢ WRPM-039, this variety preserves diagnostic evidence of the D mint mark being applied to the working die more than once, creating the overlapping impression that defines an RPM. The thirty-ninth entry approaches the current frontier of documentation for this date, though die variety catalogs are living references that continue to grow as new discoveries surface from previously unexamined coins. Denver Mint cent production in 1948 was part of a sustained postwar output that saw the facility strike hundreds of millions of cents annually, each die carrying the individually hand-punched D that was standard practice until the Mint transitioned to hub-applied mint marks in 1989. That transition rendered hand-punched RPMs a closed chapter in numismatic history — no new ones can be created, only discovered among the surviving population. No additional cross-references are published beyond the Wexler system for WRPM-039.

Attribution History

• Discovered by John Shields Cross References: None known
• None known; Wexler Variety ID: 1948-D 1¢ WRPM-039
• Expert attribution by Wexler Team

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