1964-D Doubled Die Obverse WDDO-024

Description

Closing this segment of the 1964-D doubled die obverse catalog, WDDO-024 (Wexler Variety ID: 1964-D 1¢ WDDO-024, attributed by the Wexler Team with no additional cross-references currently known) represents one of the higher-numbered DDO entries for a date whose variety population continues to grow as collectors examine coins from the Denver Mint's monumental 1964 production run. At 3,799,071,500 pieces, the 1964-D Lincoln cent held the record for the largest single-mint cent output, a distinction earned through the emergency production measures implemented to combat the national coin shortage. The shortage had multiple causes — rising silver prices, population growth, vending machine proliferation, and speculative coin hoarding — and the Mint's response was to produce at the highest sustainable rate, an approach that necessarily consumed dies at an accelerated pace. Each obverse die in this vast production was individually hubbed, receiving the Lincoln portrait and associated design elements through multiple impressions of the working hub, and each hubbing session was a fresh opportunity for the fractional misalignment that produces a doubled die. WDDO-024 documents one such occurrence. The variety's position in the upper range of the catalog suggests it may exhibit relatively subtle doubling that was identified through the careful, systematic examination that characterizes modern variety attribution. Collectors should reference the Wexler photographs and die marker data for positive identification. Struck on a 95% copper and 5% tin-zinc planchet, this cent bears the Brenner portrait and Gasparro Memorial reverse.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Carl Musselman Cross References: None known
• None known; Wexler Variety ID: 1964-D 1¢ WDDO-024
• Expert attribution by Wexler Team

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