CU-1C-1847-01R Rim Cud

Description

First documented rim cud on the 1847 Braided Hair Coronet Head Cent, CU-1C-1847-01R establishes the baseline entry for what would become one of the most extensively documented large cent dates for rim break varieties. Philadelphia's sole mint facility struck 6,183,669 large cents in 1847, the ninth year of Christian Gobrecht's Braided Hair design that would continue through 1857 — the final year of large cent production in the United States. The "01R" designation marks this as the initial reverse rim cud cataloged for the date, the foundation upon which eight subsequent cud entries would build. Cross-referenced as CU-1C-1847-01R by Cuds on Coins, this variety represents the specific die failure where a piece of the rim area of a reverse die fractured completely away, leaving a void that filled with copper planchet metal during striking. Large cents of this era were struck on 28mm copper planchets weighing approximately 10.89 grams, and the combination of soft planchet metal and hard (but brittle) die steel created conditions where rim fractures could produce particularly well-defined cuds with sharp boundaries between the featureless raised area and the adjacent intact design. The 1847 date's nine documented cuds make it an important data point for researchers comparing die failure rates across the Braided Hair large cent series, and the 01R entry anchors the entire documentation sequence for this date.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Friscomint1793 on eBay
• CU-1C-1847-01R
• Expert attribution by Cuds on Coins

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