2008 Doubled Die Obverse WDDO-001

Description

Cataloged by the Wexler Team as 2008-P $1 JQA WDDO-001, this Presidential Dollar doubled die obverse appears on the John Quincy Adams issue from the Presidential Dollar program (2007 to date). The JQA designation identifies this as a John Quincy Adams dollar — the sixth president of the United States, honored in the 2008 release alongside James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, and Martin Van Buren as part of the program's chronological presidential sequence. As WDDO-001, this variety holds the primary doubled die obverse catalog position for the 2008-P John Quincy Adams issue, indicating it is the most significant or earliest-documented obverse hub doubling for this particular presidential design. No other cross-references beyond the Wexler designation have been established. The Presidential Dollar program, authorized by the Presidential $1 Coin Act of 2005, features unique obverse portraits of each president designed by various artists, with the Statue of Liberty reverse designed by Don Everhart serving as the common reverse for all issues. The coins were struck in a manganese brass clad composition — an outer layer of 77% copper, 12% zinc, 7% manganese, and 4% nickel bonded to a copper core — weighing 8.1 grams with a diameter of 26.5 mm and a lettered edge carrying the date, mintmark, and mottoes. The Philadelphia Mint produced the 2008 John Quincy Adams dollars for both circulation and collector purposes, and the hub doubling documented under WDDO-001 affects the unique Adams obverse portrait, providing a die variety collecting dimension to this modern commemorative-style circulating coinage.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Andrew Miller Cross References: None known
• None known; Wexler Variety ID: 2008-P $1 JQA WDDO-001
• Expert attribution by Wexler Team

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