CU-1C-1958D-08 Cud

Description

The eighth documented cud for the 1958 Denver Wheat Cent, CU-1C-1958D-08, is among the highest-numbered varieties for the series' final year — evidence that Denver's dies continued failing at the rim right through the end of production. With at least eight cuds cataloged, the 1958-D date joins 1956-D and 1957-D in demonstrating that late Wheat Cent production at Denver was consistently hard on dies. The gap from -04 to -08 in this batch mirrors similar gaps elsewhere, reflecting the selective composition of enrichment batches rather than gaps in the underlying catalog. For the collector assembling a "last year cuds" set, the 1958-D entries carry both error-variety significance and end-of-era narrative weight. These are coins from the final months of a design run that stretched back to the administration of William Howard Taft, struck on presses that would soon be retooled for Frank Gasparro's Memorial reverse. The cud itself — that characteristic raised blank where a die fragment broke free — is indifferent to historical context, but the collector who holds this coin holds one of the last rim failures ever produced on a Lincoln Wheat Cent die at the Denver Mint.

Attribution History

• Discovered by David Snider
• CU-1C-1958D-08
• Expert attribution by Cuds on Coins

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