1953 Lincoln Wheat Cent - CU-1C-1953-01 Rim Cud

Description

First documented rim cud for the 1953 Lincoln Wheat Cent, this variety was cataloged by Cuds on Coins under designation CU-1C-1953-01. 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. The 1953 Lincoln Wheat Cent was struck during the post-war economic expansion, when growing retail commerce demanded large quantities of small denomination coinage. As the first documented cud for this date, CU-1C-1953-01 establishes the baseline catalog entry, though additional cuds from 1953 may be documented in future research. The Wheat Cent design by Victor David Brenner was in its forty-fourth year of production in 1953, approaching the end of its run before the Memorial reverse replaced it in 1959. Rim cuds on Wheat Cents are actively collected both as individual die varieties and as part of the broader die break specialty, where collectors seek to assemble sets organized by date, denomination, or error type across the full spectrum of U.S. coinage.

Cross References

• CU-1C-1953-01

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