1946 Variety WWHO-001

Description

Representing a foundational doubled working hub variety for the entire inaugural Roosevelt dime issue, WWHO-001 documents a hub-level doubling event that propagated across all three mint facilities — Philadelphia, Denver, and San Francisco — during 1946 production. The diagnostic presents as a spread towards the center visible on the date numerals, designer John R. Sinnock's initials JS on the truncation of Roosevelt's neck, and slightly on the motto IN GOD WE TRUST along the upper obverse rim. Unlike a standard doubled die that affects only a single working die, a doubled working hub (WWH) variety originates one step earlier in the die-making hierarchy: the master hub impressed the working hub with a secondary misaligned impression, and every working die subsequently sunk from that hub inherited the doubling. This upstream origin explains why WWHO-001 appears on coins from all three 1946 mint facilities, as Philadelphia prepared the hubs and distributed them to branch mints for local die production. The Wexler Team cataloged this under Wexler Variety ID: 1946-P,D,S 10c WWHO-001, noting that slight differences in the appearance of the doubling may be observed across individual working dies due to factors including wear to the working hub itself, wear to each working die during its production life, abrading of the working die during maintenance, and normal circulation wear on the coins. Die markers for both obverse and reverse will vary across the individual working dies that inherited this hub doubling, since the shared doubling characteristic is the only constant while each die developed its own unique secondary markers. Philadelphia struck approximately 255.3 million dimes in 1946, the debut year of the Roosevelt design honoring the recently deceased president, with Denver and San Francisco contributing additional tens of millions to make this a well-supplied inaugural issue.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Various individuals Cross References: None known Comments: Slight differences in the appearance of the doubling may be seen on the working dies. A number of factors can contribute to these differences including wear to the working hub, wear to the working die, abrading the working die, and wear to the coins.
• None known Comments: Slight differences in the appearance of the doubling may be seen on the working dies. A number of factors can contribute to these differences including wear to the working hub, wear to the working die, abrading the working die, and wear to the coins.; Wexler Variety ID: 1946-P,D,S 10¢ WWHO-001
• Expert attribution by Wexler Team

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