2020-D VDDR VDDR-001

Description

Medium spread northward on central banner stripes 7 and 9 identifies this 2020-D Lincoln Shield cent as VDDR-001, the primary doubled die reverse variety cataloged by VarietyVista for the Denver Mint issue. The VarietyVista designation (VDDR rather than the Wexler system's WDDR) reflects attribution through the VarietyVista cataloging framework, and the die pair carries provisional UVC and DMR markers (listed as UVC-???? and DMR-00?) indicating the full variety coding was still being finalized at the time of documentation. Three die stages are recorded: Stage A at early die state (unconfirmed), Stage B at mid-die-state where the reverse shows MDS characteristics and a light die crack appears on Lincoln's forehead, and Stage C at mid-die-state also unconfirmed. The appearance of a die crack on the obverse forehead at Stage B, despite this being a reverse doubled die listing, provides a useful cross-side attribution marker. The Lincoln Shield cent reverse, designed by Lyndall Bass and sculpted by Joseph Menna, features a union shield with thirteen vertical stripes, and stripes 7 and 9 sit in the central zone of the shield where northward hub doubling produces visible separation along the stripe edges. Denver produced 3.29 billion cents in 2020, a figure influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic's disruption of coin circulation patterns that led to temporary coin shortages across the country. The VDDR-001 designation as the first-listed DDR for the 2020-D date gives this variety primacy within its date-mintmark grouping, though the "medium" spread characterization suggests it occupies a middle ground between subtle and dramatic among Shield cent doubled dies.

Die Markers

• UVC-????
• DMR-00?
• Stage A:
• EDS (unconfirmed)
• Stage B:
• Reverse is MDS
• Light die crack on forehead – MDS
• Stage C:
• MDS (unconfirmed)

Attribution History

• Discovered by Daylen Poulter
• Expert attribution by VarietyVista

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