2007 (P) Montana State Quarter - CU-25c-2007P-01R(MO) Cud

Description

CU-25c-2007P-01R(MO), a reverse cud on the 2007 Philadelphia Montana State Quarter, records a die rim fracture cataloged on a design featuring a bison skull floating above the Missouri River landscape with the caption "Big Sky Country." Philadelphia struck 257,000,000 Montana quarters in 2007, the ninth year of the State Quarter program and a point where die manufacturing had absorbed nearly a decade of lessons from the demands of annual design changes. Don Everhart's Montana reverse, with its combination of the iconic bison skull, mountainous terrain, and flowing river, presented a complex topographic challenge for die manufacture — varied depths across the design surface created differential stress patterns that could influence where rim fractures initiated. No additional cross-references exist beyond the primary Cuds on Coins designation. State Quarter cuds from the program's later years, like this 2007 Montana example, benefit from the established collector awareness and reporting infrastructure built during the program's earlier years, facilitating faster documentation of new die break discoveries.

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