2013 Doubled Die Reverse WDDR-003

Description

Sharing the WDDR-003 designation with a related 2013 Presidential dollar issue, this variety exhibits doubling at the characteristic intersection point — the second ray clockwise from the Statue of Liberty's crown meeting her right arm — on Don Everhart's standardized Presidential dollar reverse. The Wexler Variety ID 2013-P $1 WM WDDR-003 associates this entry with the William McKinley Presidential dollar, and the duplicate listing reflects the catalog structure where the same reverse doubled die may appear under separate database entries while referencing the identical physical die variety. William McKinley's presidency (1897-1901) coincided with American territorial expansion following the Spanish-American War and the adoption of the Gold Standard Act of 1900, which formally established gold as the sole basis for redeeming paper currency — a policy with direct relevance to the nation's coinage history. The Presidential dollar's shared reverse design means that doubled die characteristics originating during the hub-to-die transfer process will manifest identically regardless of which presidential portrait occupies the obverse, creating attribution consistency across the program. The doubling at the ray-arm intersection represents a geometric anomaly where the expected clean crossing of two linear design elements — the ray and the arm — instead shows displacement, splitting, or thickening that indicates the secondary hub impression shifted these elements from their intended positions. No significant die markers on either surface were recorded beyond the doubling itself. Philadelphia production of 2013 Presidential dollars served the collector market exclusively, as circulation strikes had been suspended. Examination requires positioning the reverse for clear viewing of the crown ray system, identifying the second ray clockwise from Liberty's head, and tracing it to the right arm intersection under at least 15x magnification to detect the hub-doubled anomaly.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Andrew Miller Cross References: None known
• None known; Wexler Variety ID: 2013-P $1 WM WDDR-003
• Expert attribution by Wexler Team

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