CU-1C-1910-02R Cud

Description

Only the second year of Victor David Brenner's iconic Lincoln Wheat Cent — first issued in 1909 as the earliest U.S. coin to bear a president's portrait — the 1910 Philadelphia issue carrying this reverse rim cud documents an early die failure in a still-new series. A rim cud results from a section of the die face fracturing away at the rim, and every subsequent strike produces a raised, featureless plateau in place of the missing design detail. Reverse cuds on wheat cents disrupt the familiar wreath of two wheat stalks framing ONE CENT and UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. The 1910 Lincoln cent was struck at Philadelphia in bronze — 95% copper with 5% tin and zinc — without a mintmark. Philadelphia's 1910 production of over 146 million cents subjected working dies to enormous cumulative stress. The "02R" designation identifies this as the second cataloged reverse cud for the 1910 date, part of the systematic Cuds on Coins cataloging system where the R suffix indicates a reverse die failure. Early Lincoln cent varieties from 1909-1920 hold particular appeal for collectors specializing in the foundational years of this century-spanning series.

Attribution History

• Discovered by JC Stevens
• CU-1C-1910-02R
• Expert attribution by Cuds on Coins

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