1964-D Doubled Die Reverse DDR-006

Description

Denver's final year of standard cupro-nickel Jefferson nickel production before the clad-era disruption of 1965-1967, the 1964-D date carried an enormous mintage exceeding 1.78 billion pieces — the highest single-facility nickel output in history to that point. Within that flood of coins, DDR-006 preserves a hub-doubling event that produced medium spread and extra thickness across nearly every reverse text element: E PLURIBUS UNUM, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, FIVE CENTS, and both building edges of Monticello. The breadth of affected elements indicates a comprehensive hub misalignment that displaced the secondary impression uniformly across the reverse die face rather than concentrating in one sector. Die markers UVC-1303 and DMR-014 fix this variety within the VarietyVista census, linking the specific obverse-reverse die marriage. Medium spread combined with extra thickness describes a hybrid doubling character — the separation was sufficient to create visible spread in some areas while remaining close enough in others to manifest primarily as heavier letter strokes. Both building edges of Felix Schlag's Monticello rendering showing doubling provides an architectural-scale diagnostic that complements the letter-level evidence on the inscriptions. The sheer 1964-D mintage paradoxically makes this variety both potentially common in absolute numbers and difficult to locate through random searching, as the vast haystack of undoubled coins dilutes any systematic cherry-picking effort.

Die Markers

• UVC-1303; DMR-014

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