New bust half cud!

slumlord98

Well, it is actually 200 years old, but it's new to me and new to the cud collectors fraternity. An 1806 half dollar, O.106, with a minor obverse rim break at K11. Unfortunately, it's attached to a cleaned, fugly coin. The cud is worth more than the host, but this is often the case. Might a technologically competent individual provide a link for the oversized images? Thanks in advance!

http://coins.heritageauctions.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=408&Lot_No=1603&src=pr

DNADave

link

CoinAddict

Very nice.

Nysoto

Good eye SL! Looking at Heritage archives, the 1/06 and 5/04 examples appear to have the start of a cud. My two 106's do not appear to have cuds. This cud is similar to the 1806 107 reverse cuds, which are very thin and do not extend beyond the dentils, and cannot be seen on lower grade examples, as the cuds wear into the rim.

mozin

Very interesting coin, but I still cannot afford the draped series.

Cladiator

Do you mean new as in this is the only known 1806 O106 that has the cud? Previously unknown die state? If so that's pretty damn cool.

JRocco

Congrats on a nice pick-up. Bummer about the cleaning, but you also, at times, have to get what you have to get. It would be nice if this was not a cleaned coin, but then I could only imagine what this little lady would have cost you.

slumlord98

Well, Clad, it has been there for 200 years for all to see, but somehow it never made the cud list. Nysoto searched Heritage archives (what a wonderful tool this is!) and found what sort of appears to be others, but only one was definite.

http://coins.heritageauctions.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=383&Lot_No=725&src=pr

This coin shows the same little cud, but was missed by the few preturb collectors who care to chase cuds, but both are on problem coins of common die marriages, which may have allowed these to fly under the radar. There are a number of new ones that I have found in the almost 1 year that I've focused on this series. Most nuts prefer to chase the capped bust halves and ignore the earlier ones. Since there are no known cuds on the capped series these haven't been sought like on the smaller busties. Also, many are extremely rare, R7s seem to be the rule, which further limits appeal.

Watch for an article on half dollar cuds in a future JRJ article.

Barndog

here's one for the bust half nuts