CU-1C-1981D-10 Cud

Description

Tenth in the Cuds on Coins census for the 1981 Denver Mint Lincoln Memorial cent, CU-1C-1981D-10 documents a major die break at the rim of this early-1980s issue. Cuds on Denver-minted cents from this period are noteworthy because the Denver facility operated under production pressures comparable to Philadelphia's, yet its die failure patterns sometimes differed due to variations in press equipment, die steel batches, and operational procedures between the two mints. The cud itself — a raised, featureless blob created where a rim segment of the die fractured and separated — is the hallmark of terminal die failure, and CU-1C-1981D-10 represents the tenth confirmed instance of such failure among 1981-D cent dies cataloged by Cuds on Coins. Reaching ten distinct cud varieties for a single Denver Mint cent date demonstrates both the substantial volume of 1981-D cent production and the sustained efforts of error coin searchers in documenting die breaks over the intervening decades. The 1981-D cent was struck from 95% copper, 5% zinc planchets at the Denver Mint. Attribution by Cuds on Coins.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Grant5842 on ebay
• CU-1C-1981D-10
• Expert attribution by Cuds on Coins

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