2002 Doubled Die Reverse WDDR-023

Description

Twenty-third in the 2002 Philadelphia Lincoln Memorial Cent DDR catalog, WDDR-023 falls between consecutive clusters characterizing this year's census — after the 017-018 pair and before the 025-026 pair. Isolated catalog numbers like 023 may represent varieties discovered independently by different researchers or found during separate examination sessions, contributing incrementally between rapid-discovery clusters. The Memorial reverse continues yielding varieties at this depth because die manufacturing at Philadelphia involved sinking hundreds of working dies from a single master hub each year, and each hubbing operation carried a small but nonzero probability of misalignment. Over a full production year, these probabilities accumulated into dozens of catalogable varieties distributed across millions of coins struck. Cross-referenced as Wexler Variety ID 2002 1c WDDR-023, this variety occupies a solitary position in the catalog between two consecutive pairs, reflecting the varied tempo of die variety discovery.

Attribution History

• Discovered by John A. Wexler Cross References: None known
• None known; Wexler Variety ID: 2002 1¢ WDDR-023
• Expert attribution by Wexler Team

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