Cent with Cud found while CRH

Dallife

Hi guys, I hope the pics work! I was so excited to find this! Hope it's legit! It's a keeper

joeykoins

Awesome find, dude!
Wow.

Tibor

Now that's a nice find!!

ifthevamzarockin

Congrats! Nice find

Dallife

Thank you!!

bsshog40

Cool find!

JBK

Nice!

MarkKelley

The real deal.

Che_Grapes

What is it?

Dallife

@MarkKelley said:
The real deal.

Yaaaay! Don't know much about them but I know they are cool. Thank you!

Dallife

@Che_Grapes said:
What is it?

I would rather someone else answer this but I think it's a pool of die? I just don't know why the reverse is affected. Going to read up about it tomorrow

MedalCollector

That is a genuine die break, also known as a cud.

A portion of the face of the obverse die broke off. When striking, the metal of the planchet is forced upward to fill the void in the die, causing weakness on the opposite face.

This is a nice example, and I’d say it’s worth about $45 - $75. It’s amazing that this was found in circulation. No doubt, it has remained in circulation until now, because nobody knew what it was or recognized the collector value.

numisma

What a great find! Wow. Spectacular cud.

BLUEJAYWAY

That for sure is an anti-parking lot find usually seen around here. Authentic. Great find.

johnny9434

Way cool

ricko

That is an amazing CRH find.... Certainly a keeper and may be worth getting slabbed. Cheers, RickO

RichieURich

Great find, congrats!

WAYNEAS

A really nice find @Dallife
And welcome aboard.
Wayne

JBK

I know there is a website devoted to cuds. I suppose there's a slim chance someone discovered one in a new roll or bag, in which case we'd know the date.

duck620

Great find congrats.

Dallife

@JBK said:
I know there is a website devoted to cuds. I suppose there's a slim chance someone discovered one in a new roll or bag, in which case we'd know the date.

I wish I knew the date and wondered if there is any way to determine the approximate year mine is. Was going to read up on that today 😊

JBK

@Dallife said:

@JBK said:
I know there is a website devoted to cuds. I suppose there's a slim chance someone discovered one in a new roll or bag, in which case we'd know the date.

I wish I knew the date and wondered if there is any way to determine the approximate year mine is. Was going to read up on that today 😊

If you look at coins from various dates/decades you will see slight variations from each era.

Your cent looks bronze to me, and the style of the portrait reminds me of the 1970s or 80s. If not zinc, then 80s means 1982 or earlier.

So, you can probably figure out a 10 or 12 year range for starters.

Aotearoa

@JBK said:
I know there is a website devoted to cuds. I suppose there's a slim chance someone discovered one in a new roll or bag, in which case we'd know the date.

http://cuds-on-coins.com

Dallife

@JBK said:

@Dallife said:

@JBK said:
I know there is a website devoted to cuds. I suppose there's a slim chance someone discovered one in a new roll or bag, in which case we'd know the date.

I wish I knew the date and wondered if there is any way to determine the approximate year mine is. Was going to read up on that today 😊

If you look at coins from various dates/decades you will see slight variations from each era.

Your cent looks bronze to me, and the style of the portrait reminds me of the 1970s or 80s. If not zinc, then 80s means 1982 or earlier.

So, you can probably figure out a 10 or 12 year range for starters.

I didn't want to do the drop test so I weighed it. It's 3.10 grams. I'm thinking you're right.. 70's or 80's.

IkesT

@Dallife said:

@JBK said:

@Dallife said:

@JBK said:
I know there is a website devoted to cuds. I suppose there's a slim chance someone discovered one in a new roll or bag, in which case we'd know the date.

I wish I knew the date and wondered if there is any way to determine the approximate year mine is. Was going to read up on that today 😊

If you look at coins from various dates/decades you will see slight variations from each era.

Your cent looks bronze to me, and the style of the portrait reminds me of the 1970s or 80s. If not zinc, then 80s means 1982 or earlier.

So, you can probably figure out a 10 or 12 year range for starters.

I didn't want to do the drop test so I weighed it. It's 3.10 grams. I'm thinking you're right.. 70's or 80's.

The style of the "FG" initials on the reverse indicates that this coin has the Memorial reverse design variety 4 (RDV-004), which means that it was struck between 1974 and 1985.

Since you know that it's not zinc, you can narrow it down to 1974-1982.

http://varietyvista.com/01b LC Doubled Dies Vol 2/Memorial Reverse Design Varieties.htm

Dallife

@IkesT said:

@Dallife said:

@JBK said:

@Dallife said:

@JBK said:
I know there is a website devoted to cuds. I suppose there's a slim chance someone discovered one in a new roll or bag, in which case we'd know the date.

I wish I knew the date and wondered if there is any way to determine the approximate year mine is. Was going to read up on that today 😊

If you look at coins from various dates/decades you will see slight variations from each era.

Your cent looks bronze to me, and the style of the portrait reminds me of the 1970s or 80s. If not zinc, then 80s means 1982 or earlier.

So, you can probably figure out a 10 or 12 year range for starters.

I didn't want to do the drop test so I weighed it. It's 3.10 grams. I'm thinking you're right.. 70's or 80's.

The style of the "FG" initials on the reverse indicates that this coin has the Memorial reverse design variety 4 (RDV-004), which means that it was struck between 1974 and 1985.

Since you know that it's not zinc, you can narrow it down to 1974-1982.

http://varietyvista.com/01b LC Doubled Dies Vol 2/Memorial Reverse Design Varieties.htm

Wow, thank you so much!

JBK

If a retained cud version exists then that would be one way to confirm it.