CU-1c-1982-33(LD) Cud

Description

Thirty-third in the subtype-specific Large Date series, CU-1c-1982-33(LD) on the Zinc Large Date at 2.5 grams extends a catalog that has grown well beyond the range where any single researcher could reasonably expect to have examined every previously documented entry from memory alone. At this depth, the catalog functions as a reference database rather than a mental checklist — new submissions are evaluated through systematic image comparison against the archived photographic record, with positional measurements and angular coordinates providing the quantitative framework for differentiation. The zinc planchet hosting this cud is the composition that defined the Lincoln cent for every year after 1982, making each zinc entry in the 1982 catalog simultaneously a document of die failure and a first-generation specimen of the modern era's standard cent composition. The interior cud's raised plateau displaces a portion of Lincoln's portrait or the surrounding legend with featureless metal, and the copper plating over this displaced zinc fill presents a surface that appears copper-colored to the unaided eye while concealing the lighter zinc core beneath. This entry forms one half of a Bronze/Zinc pair. Attribution by Cuds on Coins.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Chuck Newman
• Expert attribution by Cuds on Coins

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