1962 Lincoln Memorial Cent - Variety WWHO-004

Description

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. 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.

Cross References

• None known; Wexler Variety ID: 1962 1¢ WWHO-004

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