2000-D Doubled Die Reverse WDDR-002

Description

Entering the new millennium, the Denver Mint's cent production continued at massive scale, and WDDR-002 preserves a hub doubling event from this transitional period in American coinage history. The Lincoln Memorial Cent design by Frank Gasparro, then in its forty-first year of continuous production, remained one of the most familiar images in American commerce when this die was manufactured. Hub doubling on the Memorial reverse is generated during the multi-pass process of sinking the intricate architectural design into the working die steel — if the hub shifts between any pass, the overlapping impressions create the doubled imagery that variety collectors seek. The 2000-D date holds additional numismatic interest as a year-date that attracted widespread public attention due to millennium celebrations, though the actual impact on collector behavior at the time was minimal for circulating denominations. Second in the sequence of documented DDRs for 2000-D, WDDR-002 carries its own specific combination of doubling characteristics that set it apart from WDDR-001. Attributed by the Wexler Team under Wexler Variety ID: 2000-D 1¢ WDDR-002, this variety is part of the comprehensive Memorial Cent DDR documentation spanning nearly fifty years of continuous production.

Attribution History

• Wexler Variety ID: 2000-D 1¢ WDDR-002
• Expert attribution by Wexler Team

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