2017 Variety WWHO-002

Description

Doubled Working Hub Obverse varieties represent a distinct category from standard doubled dies: the doubling occurs at the working hub level rather than the individual die level, meaning every working die produced from the affected hub carries the same doubling signature. WWHO-002 on the 2017 Philadelphia Lincoln Shield Cent shows moderate extra thickness on the letters of LIBERTY, with the upper left of the Y considerably thicker than the upper right — an asymmetric thickening pattern that is notably stronger on WWHO-002 than on its predecessor WWHO-001. Because the doubling propagated through the working hub, die markers on both obverse and reverse will vary among the different working dies affected, making the hub doubling itself the only consistent diagnostic across all specimens. The Wexler Team attribution notes that previously listed varieties WDDO-011, WDDO-012, and WDDO-016 have all been reclassified as manifestations of WWHO-002, consolidating what appeared to be three separate doubled die obverses into a single working hub variety — a significant catalog revision that demonstrates the importance of distinguishing hub-level from die-level doubling. Cross-referenced as Wexler Variety ID 2017-P 1c WWHO-002 with no additional known references, this variety carries the foundational WWHO attribution for the 2017 date. The reclassification of three DDOs into one WWHO reduces the apparent doubled die count for 2017 while simultaneously elevating the significance of the underlying hub anomaly.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Various individuals Cross References: None known Comments: The following previously listed varieties have all been determined to be from WWHO-002: WDDO-011, WDDO-012, and WDDO-016.
• None known Comments: The following previously listed varieties have all been determined to be from WWHO-002: WDDO-011, WDDO-012, and WDDO-016.; Wexler Variety ID: 2017-P 1¢ WWHO-002
• Expert attribution by Wexler Team

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