CU-1c-1982-37(LD) Cud

Description

Approaching the upper thirties, CU-1c-1982-37(LD) on the Bronze Large Date at 3.1 grams in the 95% copper alloy with wider date numerals records an interior cud that pushes the subtype-specific Large Date catalog closer to forty entries — a threshold that would further cement the 1982 Philadelphia cent as the most densely cataloged coin for die break varieties in the entire Lincoln Memorial series. The path from entry one to entry thirty-seven traces two decades of community-driven discovery and documentation, with individual searchers contributing specimens from their own finds and the Cuds on Coins registry providing the organizational framework that transforms isolated discoveries into a structured census. The bronze planchet hosting this cud represents the composition that American cents had carried since 1864 — over a century of copper one-cent coinage — and each late-era bronze cud from 1982 captures one of the final die failures on this historic alloy before the permanent switch to zinc. The interior cud's featureless raised plateau on this specimen fills with the warm-toned copper alloy that older collectors associate with the "real penny" of their youth, a tactile and visual marker of the pre-transition era. This entry forms one half of a Bronze/Zinc pair. Attribution by Cuds on Coins.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Fred Weinberg
• Expert attribution by Cuds on Coins

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