1941 Doubled Die Obverse DDO-022

Description

Light extra thickness on the date, LIBERTY, and WE TRUST identifies this twenty-second doubled die obverse for the 1941 Lincoln Wheat Cent, the last pre-war date before America's entry into World War II following the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Cataloged by VarietyVista with die marker codes UVC-1494 and DMR-024, the die stage documentation follows the standard three-stage progression: Stage A (Early Die State, unconfirmed), Stage B with both obverse and reverse in Mid Die State, and Stage C (Late Die State, unconfirmed). The "light extra thickness" description indicates the doubling manifests as a subtle widening of the affected inscriptions rather than a clearly separated secondary image, placing it on the subtler end of the doubled die spectrum. Twenty-two documented DDOs for 1941 reflects the enormous cent production that year — Philadelphia struck over 887 million cents as the economy accelerated with pre-war industrial mobilization. The high DMR sequence number of 024 indicates extensive die marker research across the 1941-P cent population. Victor David Brenner's Lincoln portrait was in its thirty-second year of production, and the design elements of LIBERTY, the date, and the motto IN GOD WE TRUST are the primary areas where obverse doubling manifests on the Lincoln Cent design, as these peripheral inscriptions show the greatest displacement during hub misalignment.

Die Markers

• UVC-1494
• DMR-024
• Stage A:
• EDS (unconfirmed)
• Stage B:
• Obverse and Reverse are MDS
• Stage C:
• LDS (unconfirmed)

Attribution History

• Discovered by Brian Ribar
• Expert attribution by VarietyVista

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