CU-1C-1926D-01R Cud

Description

Sole cataloged rim cud for the 1926 Denver Mint Lincoln Wheat cent in this batch, CU-1C-1926D-01R stands as the first verified die failure documented for this date-and-mint combination. The 1926-D cent had a mintage of 28.0 million pieces — a moderate output that placed less aggregate stress on Denver's die inventory than higher-mintage years but still consumed enough dies to generate at least one documented rim separation. Victor David Brenner's Lincoln portrait by 1926 had been rendered on cent dies for seventeen consecutive years, and the Mint's hubbing technology had evolved somewhat from the earliest issues, though the fundamental process of transferring design from hub to die remained unchanged. A rim cud on any Wheat cent provides a tangible connection to early twentieth-century coinage production — the physical limits of die steel under repeated compressive force, the practical decisions about when to retire failing tools, and the economic calculations that sometimes favored continued use of a cracking die over the cost of procuring a replacement. CU-1C-1926D-01R documents the first confirmed instance of that process for the 1926-D cent.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Fred Weinberg
• CU-1C-1926D-01R
• Expert attribution by Cuds on Coins

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