1962 Variety WWHO-004

Description

Among the most consequential hub-level discoveries for the 1962 Lincoln Memorial Cent series, WWHO-004 is a Doubled Working Hub Obverse variety whose influence extends well beyond a single die pair. A doubled working hub variety occurs when the working hub itself receives a secondary, misaligned impression during its creation at the Philadelphia Mint — an event that permanently stamps the doubling into the hub surface so that every working die subsequently sunk from it carries the identical displacement. What makes WWHO-004 particularly noteworthy is its documented role as the source hub for at least three distinct Doubled Die Obverse varieties: WDDO-019, WDDO-025, and WDDO-044. Each of those working dies inherited the hub-level doubling from WWHO-004 and then acquired its own unique die markers during production, but the underlying spread on the date traces directly back to this single hub event. This genealogical relationship — one hub spawning multiple cataloged doubled die varieties — illustrates why hub-level attribution matters for collectors seeking to understand the manufacturing chain behind their coins. Because die markers will vary on different working dies produced from this hub, a collector examining a coin attributed to any of the three daughter WDDOs can look past the individual die scratches and gouges to find the shared WWHO-004 signature on the date. The variety carries the Wexler Variety ID 1962 1c WWHO-004 and was attributed by the Wexler Team, with no additional cross-references currently known. Philadelphia produced 609,263,019 business strike cents in 1962, making the base coin common, but hub-level doubled varieties remain scarce regardless of the parent mintage.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Various individuals Cross References: None known
• None known; Wexler Variety ID: 1962 1¢ WWHO-004
• Expert attribution by Wexler Team

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