PC-1c-1952D-07R Pre-Cud

Description

The seventh pre-cud documented for the 1952 Denver Mint Lincoln Wheat Cent, PC-1c-1952D-07R carries the R suffix designating a reverse die crack. Pre-cuds document the stage of die failure where a crack has propagated from the die rim inward but the fractured fragment remains in place, transferring a raised line onto struck coins — the precursor to the featureless raised blob that would result if the fragment separated to create a full cud break. The 1952-D falls in the post-war period of the Lincoln Wheat Cent series, six years before the reverse design transitioned to the Lincoln Memorial in 1959. The Denver Mint struck 186,775,000 cents that year, a robust production volume that consumed numerous working dies and generated corresponding die failures. Victor David Brenner's obverse portrait of Abraham Lincoln, introduced in 1909 as the first real person depicted on a regular-issue U.S. coin, pairs with the wheat ears reverse on these final-era Wheat Cents. Struck in 95% copper and 5% tin-and-zinc at 3.11 grams. Cataloged by Cuds on Coins, the code reads PC (pre-cud), 1c (denomination), 1952D (year and mint), 07 (seventh documented pre-cud), and R (reverse die). Turn the coin to the reverse and examine along the rim for the raised hairline tracing the retained crack's path from the edge inward.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Chuck Newman
• Expert attribution by Cuds on Coins

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