1858 Flying Eagle Cent - Large Letters - RCD-1c-1858-02 Retained Cud

Description

Documented by Cuds on Coins on an 1858 Flying Eagle Cent, RCD-1c-1858-02 represents a die rim failure. The Flying Eagle Cent was produced for regular circulation only in 1857 and 1858, making it a two-year type that attracts specialists with its brief production window and distinctive James Barton Longacre design featuring an eagle in flight. Cuds on Coins does not say whether the coin has the Large Letters or the Small Letters obverse; the two are told apart by the letters AM of AMERICA. A retained cud forms when a die rim section fractures and breaks free but is held in place, creating a raised area on the struck coin that still carries its design rather than the plain, design-free mass of a full cud. The Flying Eagle Cent was struck on copper-nickel planchets at a diameter of 19mm, the same as later small cents, much smaller than the large copper cents that preceded it. RCD-1c-1858-02 is cataloged by Cuds on Coins with no known cross-references.

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