1994 (P) Washington Quarter - PC-25c-1994P-03 Pre-Cud

Description

Third cataloged obverse pre-cud for the 1994-P Washington Quarter, PC-25c-1994P-03 records a rim-area die crack that has isolated a fragment of the obverse die face. Three documented pre-cuds for a single date-mint indicates that multiple obverse dies experienced progressive rim-area failure during 1994 Philadelphia quarter production — not unusual given the volume of dies consumed annually, but noteworthy for the completeness of documentation. The pre-cud stage can be a narrow window in a die's service life: once the crack forms, the fragment stays part of the die until it breaks free, if it ever does, and coins show only the raised crack line without the blank area that characterizes a full cud. This temporal precision makes pre-cuds valuable for die-state studies, as they pin a die's failure progression to a specific interval. Philadelphia Mint, copper-nickel clad composition. The 1994-P date precedes the 50 State Quarters Program by five years, placing this variety in the final era of the standard eagle reverse before designs began changing quarterly in 1999. Cataloged and verified by Cuds on Coins.

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