1972 (D) Lincoln Memorial Cent - Doubled Die Reverse WDDR-002

Description

WDDR-002 is a doubled die reverse on the 1972-D Lincoln Memorial cent. Attributed through the Wexler Team's variety identification system as 1972-D 1¢ WDDR-002, this variety carries no known external cross-references from CONECA, Crawford, or other major attribution services — placing it among the varieties documented exclusively through Wexler research. The absence of cross-references does not diminish the variety's validity but rather reflects the specialized nature of reverse doubled die documentation, where fewer attribution organizations have invested the systematic die-by-die analysis required to identify and catalog every instance of reverse hub doubling across high-volume production dates. Denver's 1972 cent output ran into the hundreds of millions, and each reverse working die in that production received its own multi-impression hubbing sequence — any of which could introduce the slight misalignment between hub applications that generates a doubled die. Like WDDR-001, WDDR-002 comes from a 1972-D reverse working die whose hubbing produced detectable misalignment.

Cross References

• None known; Wexler Variety ID: 1972-D 1¢ WDDR-002

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