1956-D Doubled Die Obverse WDDO-038

Description

When a die develops cracks, clashing, or excessive wear during its service life, Mint personnel pull it from the press and install a replacement — a freshly sunk die that has just undergone its own hub impression cycle. This constant rotation of working dies throughout a production year means that the total number of individual dies used for a given date is far greater than the number in service at any single moment. For the 1956-D cent, that cumulative die total ran into the thousands, and WDDO-038 documents the thirty-eighth obverse die found to carry hub doubling among that population. Each die replacement event was a potential origin point for a new doubled die variety, an occurrence that went unnoticed at the time but that variety attributors would later identify through careful post-production examination. The Wexler catalog stands as the definitive record of these discoveries. Cataloged under Wexler Variety ID 1956-D 1¢ WDDO-038.

Attribution History

• Wexler Variety ID: 1956-D 1¢ WDDO-038
• Expert attribution by Wexler Team

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