2013 Doubled Die Obverse WDDO-001

Description

Benchmark variety for the 2013 Lincoln Shield cent, WDDO-001 holds the primary obverse doubled die designation and presents a multi-layered doubling profile: strong extra thickness on the letters of LIBERTY, moderate extra thickness on the date, and strong "notches" on the top left of ERTY in LIBERTY. The notch diagnostic is particularly distinctive — notches appear as angular indentations or steps at the edges of letter strokes where the primary and secondary hub impressions intersect at slightly different angles, creating visible breaks in the letter contours that are more dramatic than simple thickening. Victor David Brenner's obverse portrait pairs with Lyndall Bass's Union Shield reverse on this modern Lincoln cent design that debuted in 2010. The dual cross-references — Coppercoins: 2013P-1DO-001 and Wexler Variety ID: 2013 1¢ WDDO-001 — confirm independent documentation by two major attribution services, lending additional credibility to the variety and providing collectors with multiple reference sources for confirmation. Philadelphia struck approximately 3.75 billion cents in 2013, an enormous production volume that consumed thousands of working dies over the course of the year. The combination of strong extra thickness and notch formation on LIBERTY suggests a significant hub misalignment that produced clearly visible doubling diagnostics detectable under moderate magnification. The gradient from strong (LIBERTY) to moderate (date) spread across the obverse indicates the hub displacement was greatest in the LIBERTY region and diminished toward the date area, consistent with a misalignment that produced maximum effect at one side of the die face. As WDDO-001, this represents the benchmark obverse doubled die for the 2013 Shield cent, establishing the primary variety against which subsequent discoveries are compared.

Attribution History

• Coppercoins: 2013P-1DO-001; Wexler Variety ID: 2013 1¢ WDDO-001
• Expert attribution by Wexler Team

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