1964 Roosevelt Dime - Doubled Die Reverse WDDR-001 / DDR-006

Description

1964 WDDR-001 is a doubled die reverse on the 1964 Roosevelt dime, cataloged by the Wexler team and by VarietyVista as DDR-006. Both catalogs cite it as FS-801 in the Cherrypickers' Guide (Wexler writes FS-10-1964-801). Wexler's Coins and Die Varieties describes a very strong CW spread from a pivot near 8:00 on UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ONE DIME, the right dot, E PLURIBUS UNUM, the stem of the olive branch, almost every element of the oak branch, and the flame, strongest on the right half of the reverse. It follows five stages on each side. Obverse stage A: a N/S scratch separating the I and N of IN, three N/S scratches behind the lips, a scratch north from the upper chin crossing another to form an inverted V, and a gouge under the upright of the E of LIBERTY. These markers stay through stages B and C; at stage C a light crack runs north from the upper right curve of the B of LIBERTY to the rim, by stage D it passes through the B and curves faintly toward the nose, and at stage E the crack reaching the nose is very heavy. On the reverse, stage A shows a northward scratch linking the upper left of the E of ONE with the left leg of the R of PLURIBUS, and an X-shaped scratch below the B of PLURIBUS. Stage B adds a SSE scratch from the lower inside middle of the E of STATES to the flame. At stage C a short crack runs from the rim at 7:00 into the O of ONE at its right center. At stage D that crack runs through the O, a second one starts from its upper right, and N/S scratches appear left of the O of OF. At stage E the crack through the O is very heavy, the second crack reaches the first U of PLURIBUS, a new crack at 3:15 passes through the lower right of the C of AMERICA to the lower right oak leaves, another heads SW off the rim at 2:00, crossing the M of AMERICA at its upper left on the way to the center, and a third starts at the upper right of that M and wanders east through ERI before turning toward the rim above the C. Wexler credits stage A to John A. Wexler, with an upgraded coin from Joe Feld, stage B to John Bordner, and stages B, C and D to Joe Feld. CONECA lists the die as 6-R-I. VarietyVista, crediting Joe Feld, records a medium spread on all the lettering and devices around the rim, lightest on OF AMERICA, and lists the obverse as ODV-011 (blunt 9). Under its marker codes UVC-439 and DMR-014, stage A is an early die state it has not confirmed. At stage B, an early-middle die state, light N-S scratches mark the reverse and heavy N-S scratches the obverse. Both sides are in a middle die state at stage C and a late die state at stage D.

Die Markers

• VarietyVista: UVC-439 DMR-014 Stage A: EDS (unconfirmed) Stage B: Light die scratches North-South on Reverse – EMDS Heavy die scratches North-South on Obverse – EMDS Stage C: Reverse and Obverse are MDS Stage D: Reverse and Obverse are LDS

Cross References

• Wexler: 1964 10¢ WDDR-001; VarietyVista: 1964 DDR-006; CONECA: 6-R-I, Cherrypickers: FS-10-1964-801

External References