CU-25c-2006P-02R(ND) Cud

Description

North Dakota's State Quarter reverse, designed by Donna Weaver and depicting two grazing American bison with a sunset over rugged badlands terrain, received its second documented reverse cud with CU-25c-2006P-02R(ND). Philadelphia struck 305,800,000 North Dakota quarters in 2006, the eighth year of the fifty-state program, consuming hundreds of die pairs over the production run. The "02R" suffix indicates this is the second reverse rim cud cataloged for the 2006-P North Dakota issue, meaning at least two separate reverse dies developed rim fractures severe enough to leave identifiable raised featureless areas on struck coins. Cataloged by Cuds on Coins with no additional cross-reference number, this variety documents the type of die failure where a piece of the rim area separates entirely from the die body, creating a void that fills with planchet metal during each subsequent strike. The bison-and-badlands design provides a distinctive visual frame for locating the cud relative to the coin's geography — whether the rim break occurred near the grazing bison, the sunrise, or along the peripheral lettering determines the cud's specific appearance on the finished coin. State Quarter cuds from the later program years (2006-2008) tend to receive less collector attention than those from the initial 1999-2000 issues, when the program's novelty generated the most intense variety hunting, creating potential value opportunities for attentive collectors of North Dakota varieties.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Sandy Peters
• Expert attribution by Cuds on Coins

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