1955 Lincoln Wheat Cent - RCD-1c-1955-17R Retained Cud

Description

Seventeen documented retained cuds for the 1955 Philadelphia Lincoln Wheat Cent place RCD-1c-1955-17R at a relatively high sequence number reflecting meaningful die failure activity. Cataloged by Cuds on Coins, this retained cud formed when a die crack propagated to the rim and the resulting fragment broke entirely free while staying captured in position, producing a raised irregular mass on each subsequent strike. The raised area keeps the underlying design intact, carrying the features the retained fragment bears, though they may sit higher than or out of line with the design around them. Seventeen retained cuds exceeds the count for many comparable Wheat Cent years, though it remains below the extraordinary totals generated by the 1943 steel issues. Philadelphia's 1955 cent used the standard bronze composition of 95% copper, 5% tin-zinc on the Wheat Cent reverse that had fewer than four years remaining before its replacement by the Memorial motif in 1959.

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