1960 Doubled Die Reverse WDDR-007

Description

Displaying a close spread across three distinct reverse text groups, WDDR-007 on the 1960 Lincoln Memorial Cent Small Date affects the designer's initials FG, the denomination ONE CENT, and the lower letters in USA. This breadth of involvement — spanning from the designer's initials near the lower right of the Memorial to the denomination and country abbreviation — indicates a hub misalignment that influenced a wide swath of the reverse die during manufacture. The spread is described as close, meaning high magnification and careful comparison against a known normal specimen are necessary to confirm the secondary impression on each affected element. Collectors should pay particular attention to the serifs and terminal strokes of the letters, where even a close spread tends to manifest most clearly as slight thickening or shadowing. The obverse die markers for this variety remain incompletely documented, with only the general notation that obverse diagnostics exist. This sparse documentation underscores the value of examining multiple specimens when they become available, as additional die markers may yet be recorded. The Small Date parent attribution confirms this variety belongs to the later 1960 production phase at Philadelphia, and its inclusion in the catalog recognizes the doubling as genuine hub doubling rather than mechanical doubling or die deterioration.

Die Markers

• Obverse

Attribution History

• Discovered by Wexler Team

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