2013 Doubled Die Reverse WDDR-002

Description

Within the Presidential Dollar series that honored each American president with a unique obverse portrait from 2007 onward, WDDR-002 for the 2013-P Theodore Roosevelt issue targets a specific intersection on the shared reverse design: the point where the second ray clockwise from the Statue of Liberty's crown meets her right arm. Don Everhart designed this reverse — depicting a forward-facing Statue of Liberty that appears on all Presidential dollars — and the geometric precision of the radiating crown rays creates natural reference lines where even subtle hub doubling becomes detectable as a deviation from the expected ray-arm intersection geometry. The Wexler Team documented this variety under Wexler Variety ID 2013-P $1 TR WDDR-002, with no significant obverse or reverse die markers beyond the doubling itself recorded. Philadelphia produced Presidential dollars for circulation and collector sets during 2013, though the series had been restricted to collector-only production since 2012 when direct circulation distribution was suspended due to excessive Federal Reserve vault inventories. The doubling at the ray-arm intersection manifests as a displaced or split junction point where the ray and arm meet, creating a subtle but repeatable anomaly visible under magnification. Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President, was honored on this issue alongside William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, and Warren G. Harding as part of the 2013 Presidential dollar releases. No additional cross-references from CONECA or other attribution services are currently known. Collectors should position the coin to view the Statue of Liberty on the reverse, count the second ray clockwise from the head, and examine its intersection with the right arm under 15-20x magnification for evidence of displaced junction geometry that indicates hub doubling.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Andrew Miller Cross References: None known
• None known; Wexler Variety ID: 2013-P $1 TR WDDR-002
• Expert attribution by Wexler Team

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