2001 Doubled Die Reverse DDR-037

Description

Following immediately after DDR-036 in the VarietyVista catalog, the 2001 Lincoln Memorial Cent DDR-037 shares the same general characteristic of a medium spread west on column 7 but presents the doubling from knee to pedestal rather than hand to pedestal — a shorter spread range that indicates a different die with a distinct displacement pattern. Die markers UVC-3282 and DMR-039 fingerprint the specific die, with sequential DMR numbers to DDR-036 suggesting these dies may have been examined during the same research session. Die state documentation records Stage A with both reverse and obverse at Early Die State, Stage B at Mid Die State unconfirmed, and Stage C at Late Die State unconfirmed. The narrower spread range (knee-to-pedestal versus the hand-to-pedestal seen on DDR-036) could indicate a smaller hub displacement on this particular die, with the displacement only producing visible doubling on the lower column segment where the column line is wider and more prominent. The 2001 Memorial Cent production consumed numerous die pairs at the Philadelphia Mint, and the systematic documentation of sequential DDR numbers — each representing a distinct die with its own displacement characteristics — builds a statistical picture of how frequently hub misalignment occurred during routine die manufacture in the early 2000s.

Die Markers

• UVC-3282
• DMR-039
• Stage A:
• Reverse and Obverse are EDS
• Stage B:
• MDS (unconfirmed)
• Stage C:
• LDS (unconfirmed)

Attribution History

• Discovered by James Wiles
• Expert attribution by VarietyVista

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