SKH-1c-1971D-35 Spiked Head

Description

Positioned as the thirty-fifth entry in the Cuds on Coins spiked head catalog for the 1971-D Lincoln Memorial cent, SKH-1c-1971D-35 was documented on August 6, 2020 — falling chronologically between SKH-34 (December 2019) and SKH-36 (February 2021). The catalog numbers reflect submission sequence rather than discovery order, explaining why SKH-35's later documentation date places it after SKH-36 in the processing pipeline but before it in catalog numbering. This administrative detail is common in die variety catalogs where submissions arrive from different collectors at different times and are processed in the order received. Attributed by Cuds on Coins, SKH-35 adds to the growing body of evidence that the 1971-D spiked head population extends well beyond the initial discovery cluster, with new varieties surfacing year after year as collectors continue examining the massive pool of surviving coins. No external cross-references have been recorded for this variety. The die crack producing SKH-35's spike followed the same fundamental stress-failure mechanism documented across all thirty-nine-plus entries — fatigue crack nucleation at the high-relief contour of Lincoln's portrait, followed by propagation into the adjacent field — but the resulting crack path is unique to this particular die, creating a spike geometry that can be resolved from neighboring entries through magnified comparison against the published reference photographs.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Robert Oney
• Cross reference: none. 08/06/2020.
• Expert attribution by Cuds on Coins

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