1856 Braided Hair Coronet Head Cent - Slanted 5 or 1856 Braided Hair Coronet Head Cent - Upright 5: the source doesn't say which. Listed under both until it's settled.
1856 Braided Hair Coronet Head Cent - Slanted 5 - CU-1c-1856-02 Rim Cud
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Discovered by
Friscomint1793 on ebay
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Description
CU-1c-1856-02 is a rim cud on an 1856 Braided Hair Coronet Head Large Cent, cataloged by Cuds on Coins. A rim cud represents the loss of part of the die's rim gutter: on the coin it appears as a raised interruption in the design rim that tracks the rim's course. Braided Hair Coronet Head Large Cents, produced from 1839 through 1857, are struck in copper and represent the final large-cent design type before the small cent was adopted in 1857. Rim cud varieties on late large-cent dates carry collector interest both as terminal-design pieces and as die-failure examples on an obsolete denomination.
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*LCC File numbers are from the Thurman & Margolis Cud Book *LCC File numbers are from the Thurman & Margolis Cud Book *LCC File numbers are from the Thurman & Margolis Cud Book
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