CU-1C-1955-011 Cud

Description

Cross-referenced through two independent numbering systems — CU-1c-1955-011 in the Cuds on Coins catalog and JCc-55_242 in the Jefferson Cud Census — this rim break was recorded on February 15, 2018, on the 1955 Philadelphia Lincoln wheat cent. The year 1955 occupies a singular position in error numismatics as the date of the famous 1955 Doubled Die Obverse, making all 1955 cent varieties carry heightened collector awareness. Philadelphia produced roughly 330 million cents that year, a figure that generated extensive die usage and multiple documented die failures. The numbering as the eleventh cataloged cud for the date (011) indicates substantial die survey work across the 1955 production, and the JCc-55_242 cross-reference places it within a broader census of over 240 documented Jefferson cud entries for this date. Wheat cent dies in the mid-1950s were approaching the end of the design's nearly fifty-year run, and the Mint's experience with the Brenner design had optimized die life — meaning cuds from this period typically represent genuine terminal failure rather than premature breakage, and surviving examples often show late-die-state characteristics throughout the remaining design elements.

Attribution History

• CU-1C-1955-011; CU-1c-1955-011, JCc-55_242. 2/15/2018.
• Expert attribution by Cuds on Coins

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