2000 (D) Lincoln Memorial Cent - Doubled Die Reverse WDDR-008

Description

Eighth doubled die reverse for the 2000 Denver Mint Lincoln Memorial Cent, WDDR-008 was produced during the second year of the 50 State Quarters program, when unprecedented public interest in circulating coinage was driving collectors to examine pocket change with renewed intensity. Denver struck billions of cents in 2000, consuming enormous quantities of working dies and generating proportionally numerous hub misalignment events during manufacture. The Memorial reverse design, in its forty-first year of continuous production, provided the familiar architectural reference points — columns, steps, entablature, and the seated Lincoln figure — where hub doubling could be precisely localized and measured. Eight DDRs cataloged for the 2000-D date positions it within the typical range for high-volume modern cent production, where the sheer number of die pairs manufactured ensures multiple instances of hub misalignment across each year's output. Frank Gasparro's design had accumulated decades of DDR documentation by the year 2000, giving researchers a deep comparative database for classifying new discoveries. Cross-referenced as Wexler Variety ID: 2000-D 1¢ WDDR-008, this variety was attributed by the Wexler Team and joins the extensive millennium-era Memorial Cent DDR catalog.

Cross References

• Wexler Variety ID: 2000-D 1¢ WDDR-008

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