2000 Doubled Die Reverse WDDR-016

Description

Struck in the millennium year, this 2000 Philadelphia Lincoln Memorial Cent WDDR-016 documents a hub displacement event at the dawn of a new century. The year 2000 was the forty-first for the Memorial reverse and the ninety-first for the Lincoln Cent obverse — Victor David Brenner's portrait having debuted in 1909 as the first real person depicted on a regular-issue United States coin. The Memorial design would continue for eight more years before yielding to four bicentennial reverses in 2009, making 2000 a late-era date in the Memorial's fifty-year lifespan. WDDR-016's position as the sixteenth cataloged DDR for the year indicates a smaller census than the two-hundred-plus varieties documented for 1998 and 1999, though this may reflect incomplete cataloging rather than a genuine reduction in hub displacement frequency. Philadelphia Mint cent production remained enormous in 2000, and the die inventory required to sustain it would have generated a comparable statistical probability of hub misalignment. Cross-referenced as Wexler Variety ID 2000 1¢ WDDR-016.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Brian Allen Cross References: None known
• None known; Wexler Variety ID: 2000 1¢ WDDR-016
• Expert attribution by Wexler Team

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