2001 Doubled Die Reverse DDR-008

Description

Eighth VarietyVista doubled die reverse for the 2001 Lincoln Memorial Cent, DDR-008 displays a distinctive medium spread east producing an extra set of knees between the seated Lincoln statue's legs — an anatomical doubling that creates one of the more visually engaging DDR expressions on the Memorial reverse. Die markers UVC-2938 and DMR-010 identify this die. Die state documentation shows Stage A with both reverse and obverse at Early Die State, while Stages B and C remain unconfirmed. The "extra knees" description distinguishes this from the more common extra column varieties, indicating the hub displacement was oriented so that the statue's lower anatomy — rather than the flanking columns — received the most visible doubled image. This occurs when the displacement direction and magnitude align with the statue's leg geometry in a way that separates the knee outlines into distinct doubled images positioned between the original legs. The statue of Lincoln within the Memorial, though rendered at miniature scale on the cent reverse, contains enough anatomical detail that hub shifts can create recognizable phantom limbs, knees, or other body parts. The 2001 date was produced at Philadelphia in quantities that consumed many die pairs, and the variety of doubling expressions — extra columns, extra knees, extra legs — across different 2001 DDR dies demonstrates that hub displacement occurred in multiple directions throughout the year's die production.

Die Markers

• UVC-2938
• DMR-010
• Stage A:
• Reverse and Obverse are EDS
• Stage B:
• MDS (unconfirmed)
• Stage C:
• LDS (unconfirmed)

Attribution History

• Discovered by Dennis Fisher
• Expert attribution by VarietyVista

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