1964 Doubled Die Obverse WDDO-029

Description

Nearing the end of the currently cataloged 1964 Philadelphia doubled die obverse sequence, WDDO-029 is a variety that experienced collectors seek when assembling comprehensive date sets or exploring the full range of hub doubling patterns for this prolific year. With 2,648,575,000 business strikes from the Philadelphia Mint, the 1964 cent is one of the most common dates in the Lincoln Memorial series by absolute mintage, yet each individual doubled die variety represents a distinct die with a limited production run. A single obverse die might produce 250,000 to 500,000 coins before retirement, meaning even a common-date cent with a specific DDO designation has a finite population that is orders of magnitude smaller than the total date mintage. No cross-references, die markers, or expert attributions have been published for WDDO-029. Attribution depends on matching the doubling pattern — the direction, spread, and affected design elements — against Wexler reference images. Collectors should be aware that machine doubling, worthless strike doubling caused by die bounce during the striking process, is sometimes confused with genuine hub doubling. The key distinction is consistency: hub doubling is identical on every coin from the same die, while machine doubling is random and inconsistent. If two coins from the same die show identical doubling in identical locations, the doubling is from the die (hub doubling), not the strike. Struck on a 3.11-gram, 19mm bronze planchet of 95% copper and 5% tin-zinc.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Wexler Team

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