1972-D Doubled Die Reverse WDDR-002

Description

Second and final Wexler doubled die reverse documented for the 1972-D Lincoln Memorial cent, WDDR-002 completes the reverse doubled die catalog for this Denver Mint date. 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. While the obverse doubled dies of 1972-D (particularly WDDO-001 with its documented market values reaching $75 in MS65RD) attract the most collector attention, the reverse varieties occupy an equally legitimate position in the complete die variety record. WDDR-002 stands alongside WDDR-001 as the entirety of the documented reverse doubling for this date, representing two distinct reverse working dies whose hubbing sequences produced detectable misalignment — a modest tally that contrasts with the five obverse doubled dies but is typical of the obverse-to-reverse ratio seen across most Lincoln Memorial cent dates in the Wexler catalog system.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Jessy Gozum Cross References: None known
• None known; Wexler Variety ID: 1972-D 1¢ WDDR-002
• Expert attribution by Wexler Team

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