2000 Doubled Die Reverse WDDR-022

Description

Twenty-second in the 2000 Philadelphia DDR census, WDDR-022 belongs to the final year of the twentieth century's Lincoln Memorial Cent production. The Memorial reverse had by this point been struck on tens of billions of coins across four decades, making it one of the most reproduced architectural images in human history. Each reproduction began with the master die, from which master hubs were created, from which working hubs were made, from which working dies were finally sunk — a multi-generational transfer chain where alignment precision at the final hub-to-die stage determined whether a given die would produce normal coins or doubled die varieties. The 2000 date carries particular appeal for collectors who organize their variety sets chronologically, as it represents the transition point between millennia within the Memorial Cent series. WDDR-022 preserves a record of die preparation in that transitional year, linking the long tradition of twentieth-century cent production to the series' final decade. Cross-referenced as Wexler Variety ID 2000 1¢ WDDR-022.

Attribution History

• Discovered by William Slaughter Cross References: None known
• None known; Wexler Variety ID: 2000 1¢ WDDR-022
• Expert attribution by Wexler Team

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