1945 Doubled Die Obverse WDDO-005

Description

Struck during the final year of World War II, the 1945 Lincoln Wheat Cent was produced on shell-case brass planchets recovered from spent military ammunition casings — a composition adopted in 1944 after the controversial 1943 zinc-coated steel experiment. Philadelphia's 1945 output of over 1.04 billion cents drove extraordinary die consumption, increasing the statistical probability of hub doubling events. WDDO-005 is the fifth such obverse variety identified by the Wexler Team for this date, cataloged as Wexler Variety ID: 1945 1¢ WDDO-005. Hub doubling on the obverse would manifest on Brenner's Lincoln portrait and surrounding inscriptions, where even minor die displacement between successive hubbing impressions permanently transfers separation into the working die. No specific die markers or supplementary cross-references have been published, so attribution depends on matching the spread pattern against Wexler's reference images.

Attribution History

• Wexler Variety ID: 1945 1¢ WDDO-005
• Expert attribution by Wexler Team

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