CU-1c-1972-03 Rim Cud

Description

The third rim cud attributed for the 1972 Philadelphia Lincoln Memorial cent, CU-1c-1972-03 was documented by the Cuds on Coins team on November 11, 2021 — more than two and a half years after the second entry in the sequence, indicating that new cud discoveries for this date are infrequent and require either patient searching through large quantities of coins or the fortuitous examination of previously unsearched accumulations. No cross-references have been established. The extended time between attributions does not diminish the significance of the find: each documented cud represents a physical die that experienced catastrophic edge failure during production, and the late discovery simply means this particular die's products had not previously been submitted for formal attribution. Rim cuds on Lincoln cents are collected both as individual die varieties and as part of broader cud-type collections spanning multiple dates and denominations. The 1972 Philadelphia cent occupies a noteworthy position in cud collecting because the date's extremely high mintage means more dies were used (and thus more opportunities for cud formation existed) than for lower-mintage dates, yet the total number of documented cuds remains modest — suggesting either that most cud-bearing coins were absorbed into circulation without collector examination or that die quality control at the Philadelphia Mint in 1972 was sufficient to retire most dies before catastrophic edge failure occurred.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Marvin L
• Cross reference: none. 11/11/2021.
• Expert attribution by Cuds on Coins

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