CU-1C-1947-02 Cud

Description

Only 190 million cents left Philadelphia's presses in 1947, making CU-1C-1947-02 a cud from one of the lowest-mintage post-war wheat cent years. That reduced output — barely a fifth of the prior year's production — meant fewer working dies in service and fewer opportunities for catastrophic rim failure. Yet die fractures are probabilistic events influenced by material quality, heat treatment, and accumulated stress, and the second documented cud for 1947 confirms that even modest production runs generate die breaks. The composition was shifting back toward pre-war standards as the Mint phased out recycled shell-casing brass in favor of traditional bronze with its small tin component. Collectors assembling a comprehensive wheat cent cud set value the 1947 entries for their relative scarcity: fewer coins struck means fewer cuds produced, and fewer cuds means fewer surviving examples available to the market. The lower mintage positions the 1947 cent as a pivot between the massive wartime issues and the more moderate production levels of the late 1940s. Documented by the Cuds on Coins project and cross-referenced as CU-1C-1947-02.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Chuck Newman
• CU-1C-1947-02
• Expert attribution by Cuds on Coins

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