2013 Doubled Die Reverse WDDR-001

Description

Assigned the first-position Wexler identifier 2013-P 10¢ WDDR-001, this Philadelphia Roosevelt dime's doubled die reverse marks the premier DDR listing for the 2013 production year. As the first-cataloged variety for its date, WDDR-001 often represents the strongest or most readily identifiable doubled die among those documented, establishing the benchmark for visual prominence that subsequent listings are measured against. The 2013 production year at Philadelphia generated dimes in quantities sufficient to require constant die rotation, and within the hundreds of reverse dies manufactured and deployed that year, at least two — WDDR-001 and the separately cataloged WDDR-002 — received hubbing impressions with detectable misalignment. Roosevelt dime varieties from the 2010s benefit from the precision of modern die manufacturing, where computer-controlled hubbing presses produce more consistent results than the hand-operated equipment of earlier decades, making genuine hub doubling rarer and therefore more noteworthy when it occurs. No cross-references to other variety services have been established, and no ancillary die markers have been reported. The Roosevelt dime's reverse design — with the motto E PLURIBUS UNUM in particular — continues to be the primary diagnostic zone for DDR detection, as the serif lettering style used in this inscription provides sharp, well-defined edges that make even slight directional spread visible under standard numismatic magnification of 7x to 10x power.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Allen Darrow Cross References: None known
• None known; Wexler Variety ID: 2013-P 10¢ WDDR-001
• Expert attribution by Wexler Team

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