1957-D Doubled Die Obverse WDDO-025

Description

Carrying cross-reference Wexler Variety ID: 1957-D 1¢ WDDO-025, this doubled die obverse on the 1957-D Lincoln Wheat cent comes from the penultimate year of the Wheat reverse design, struck at Denver where production exceeded one billion cents for the date. The sheer scale of 1957-D coinage — over 1.05 billion pieces — meant that hundreds of obverse dies were consumed during the production run, each requiring the multi-step hubbing process that occasionally produced misalignment doubling. As the twenty-fifth cataloged DDO for this date-mint, WDDO-025 reflects the depth of variety research conducted by the Wexler Team on this heavily produced issue. Victor David Brenner's Lincoln portrait, introduced in 1909, had been refined through multiple master hub generations by 1957, and the design elements most susceptible to visible doubling include the fine serifs of LIBERTY, the thin crossbar of the T in TRUST, and the angular digits of the date. Die preparation at Denver in the late 1950s still relied on the Janvier reduction lathe and manual hubbing press, processes that would be gradually modernized in the decades ahead. Collectors building a comprehensive 1957-D DDO set will find WDDO-025 among the more challenging attributions to locate, given the variety's high sequential number and the difficulty of searching through a billion-coin population.

Attribution History

• Wexler Variety ID: 1957-D 1¢ WDDO-025
• Expert attribution by Wexler Team

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