CU-1C-1982-71 Cud

Description

Pushing past the seventy-entry milestone for the 1982 Philadelphia cent, CU-1C-1982-71 opens this batch with a standard cud on the Bronze Small Date subtype — the 95% copper alloy at 3.1 grams paired with the compact date punch whose tighter numeral spacing sets it apart from its large date counterpart. The Bronze Small Date occupied a narrow manufacturing window at Philadelphia in 1982: it required both the small date punch tooling and the original copper planchet supply, a combination that existed for only a brief interval before the lighter zinc blanks replaced the bronze stock entirely. That compressed production timeline means fewer working dies served this subtype than the more common Bronze Large Date, yet the cud census continues to reveal new rim failures at remarkable depth. By the time a census reaches seventy-one confirmed entries for a single date and mint, each new submission demands exhaustive comparison against an ever-growing reference library of fracture positions — a verification burden that the Cuds on Coins registry handles through systematic photographic overlay analysis. The Bronze Small Date's warm reddish copper tone and heavier hand feel distinguish it immediately from its zinc-core successor, making subtype identification straightforward once a collector has a precision scale. Attribution by Cuds on Coins.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Mark Adamson
• CU-1C-1982-71
• Expert attribution by Cuds on Coins

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