1995-D Doubled Die Obverse DDO-002

Description

DDO-002 on the 1995-D Lincoln Memorial cent exhibits light doubling affecting WE TRUST, the date, and the mintmark — three distinct obverse elements whose involvement suggests a broad hub misalignment during die production. The 1995-D is a modern-era Denver Mint issue with a substantial business-strike mintage, produced during the zinc-core copper-plated composition era that began in 1982. VarietyVista assigns UVC-2446 and die marriage DMR-003 to this variety. The simultaneous doubling on the motto, date, and mintmark provides multiple diagnostic checkpoints: collectors can verify the variety by confirming consistent displacement direction across all three elements. Light-class doubling on modern zinc cents can be complicated by the plating process, which sometimes creates surface artifacts that mimic doubling — genuine hub doubling will show consistent directionality and will affect the full depth of the raised design rather than just the surface layer. The 1995-D DDO-002 is the second cataloged doubled die obverse for this date, following the primary DDO-001, and represents a separate die with its own unique hub misalignment signature.

Die Markers

• UVC-2446; DMR-003

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