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1883 Nickel with cud

UtahCoinUtahCoin Posts: 5,366 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Found this in a junk box.

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Recipient of the coveted "You Suck" award, April 2009 for cherrypicking a 1833 CBHD LM-5, and April 2022 for a 1835 LM-12, and again in Aug 2012 for picking off a 1952 FS-902.

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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 34,266 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Sorry, but that looks like a foreign substance on the coin, perhaps solder.
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    ModCrewmanModCrewman Posts: 4,055 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'd have to agree, if a CUD, the numerals would also be absent because a CUD is by definition (mine at least) the absence of a die due to a breakage.
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    FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 6,049 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Agree with both posts above.

    It's either solder, or some other
    type of liquid....but it's not a
    cracked or broken die error.......
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