1998-D Doubled Die Reverse WDDR-013

Description

Denver's contribution to the 1998 Lincoln Memorial Cent variety catalog includes WDDR-013, which displays a distinctive diagonal double bar extending from the upper knee to below the foot on the left side of the Lincoln statue at the sixth column. The statue detail — the miniature seated Lincoln figure visible inside the Memorial — is among the most challenging diagnostic areas on any U.S. coin, and doubling that manifests on the statue's limbs and furniture requires careful magnified examination to confirm. Obverse die markers include a die chip below the Y of LIBERTY, while three reverse die chips provide additional attribution confirmation: one between the lower N and E of ONE, one on the lower third memorial column, and one in the lower third memorial bay. Cross-referenced under Wexler Variety ID 1998-D 1-cent WDDR-013 with no other known attributions, the Wexler Team cataloged this variety from Denver's 1998 production. The four die chips distributed across obverse and reverse create an effective attribution shortcut — confirming any combination of these secondary markers can verify the die identification before attempting the more demanding statue examination where the primary doubling is located. Denver's 1998-D cent production, while substantial, generated fewer documented DDR varieties than Philadelphia's record-setting output that same year, reflecting the proportional relationship between production volume and variety count.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Steve Young Cross References: None known
• None known; Wexler Variety ID: 1998-D 1¢ WDDR-013
• Expert attribution by Wexler Team

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