CU-10c-1935S-01R Cud

Description

First documented reverse cud for the 1935 San Francisco Mint Mercury Dime, this die break variety formed during the production of one of the most artistically celebrated coin designs in American numismatics. Adolph A. Weinman's Mercury Dime design — technically depicting a Winged Liberty Head rather than the Roman god Mercury — had been in production since 1916 and was nineteen years into its run by 1935. The reverse features a fasces with an olive branch, and the die rim fracture that created this cud interrupted the design along the coin's edge, producing the characteristic raised featureless mass. San Francisco struck approximately 15.8 million dimes in 1935, a figure influenced by the ongoing Great Depression that affected coin demand and production planning throughout the 1930s. The "01R" designation confirms this as the first reverse cud cataloged for the date, with the cross-reference MDC-35S-1R providing an alternate lookup under the Mercury Dime Cud classification system. Cataloged by Cuds on Coins, Mercury Dime cuds are sought after by collectors who appreciate the intersection of die failure documentation with one of the most beautiful regular-issue designs in American coinage, where Weinman's high-relief elements made the dies particularly susceptible to rim stress fractures.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Fred Weinberg
• Cross reference number: MDC-35S-1R
• Expert attribution by Cuds on Coins

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