1940 Doubled Die Reverse DDR-001

Description

Anchoring the 1940 Philadelphia doubled die reverse census, DDR-001 exhibits extra thickness on E PLURIBUS UNUM, CENTS, AMERICA, and the letters LLO of MONTICELLO across the reverse. The breadth of affected elements — spanning the motto, partial denomination, partial country name, and the building name — indicates the secondary hub impression overlapped the primary across virtually the entire reverse die face. Philadelphia produced approximately 176.5 million nickels in 1940, Felix Schlag's design then in its third year. VarietyVista classifies this variety as UVC-644 with die marriage DMR-007. The extra thickness on LLO of MONTICELLO is a distinctive diagnostic, as building-name doubling is less commonly reported than legend-text doubling in the Jefferson series. Combined with the thickening on E PLURIBUS UNUM, CENTS, and AMERICA, this comprehensive coverage makes DDR-001 relatively straightforward to attribute — the uniformly bolder appearance of multiple text elements across the reverse confirms the hub doubling when compared against undoubled specimens.

Die Markers

• UVC-644; DMR-007

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