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1. Re: I see Insider's cud picture and raise him a chunk of die steel

   

   Comment by CaptHenway · December 31, 2019 10:14AM · Home› U.S. Coin Forum

   Here is the writeup I published about it: Amazing Cud Error With Matching Die Steel Revealed By Tom DeLorey Serendipity is a marvelous thing. A few weeks ago I happened to be in downtown Chicago, and naturally stopped in at Harlan Berk’s coin shop which I had retired from in 2010 after 21 years. While there I just happened…

2. Re: I see Insider's cud picture and raise him a chunk of die steel

   

   Comment by Insider2 · December 31, 2019 5:07PM · Home› U.S. Coin Forum

   @CaptHenway said: "The only other possible explanation is that the fragment separated from the die just as it was striking the last non-error coin that die made, and as the obverse die retracted from the coin the piece of die steel adhered to the (essentially normal) coin it had just struck. There are many errors known…