1960 Variety WWHO-001

Description

Unlike a conventional doubled die obverse where the doubling originates during the manufacture of a single working die, WWHO-001 on the 1960 Lincoln Memorial Cent Small Date is a Working Working Hub Obverse variety — meaning the doubling occurred at the hub level rather than the die level. In the die manufacturing hierarchy, a master hub creates a master die, which in turn creates working hubs, which then produce the working dies used to strike coins. When a working hub itself receives multiple misaligned impressions from the master die, every working die subsequently produced from that hub inherits the same doubling. This distinction is critical because it means the WWHO-001 doubling is not unique to a single die but appears on all coins struck from any working die derived from the affected hub. The doubling presents as a spread towards the rim on the lower part of the letters of IN GOD WE TRUST, and the obverse confirms a Small Date hub. Because the doubling is hub-level, die markers will vary among the individual working dies — each die pair will carry different scratches, gouges, and other secondary diagnostics while sharing the same fundamental hub doubling on IGWT. Cataloged by the Wexler Team as 1960 1¢ WWHO-001 with no other known cross-references, this variety offers collectors the opportunity to acquire multiple specimens from different working dies, each showing the same hub doubling with distinct die-specific markers.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Various individuals Cross References: None known
• None known; Wexler Variety ID: 1960 1¢ WWHO-001
• Expert attribution by Wexler Team

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