CU-1c-1982-18(SD) Cud

Description

On the bronze side of the CU-1c-1982-18(SD) pair, this interior cud records the same die break on the heavier 95% copper alloy at 3.1 grams with the compact small date numerals. The Bronze Small Date represents one of the briefest production windows among the four 1982 Philadelphia subtypes: it required both the small date punch tooling and the original copper planchet supply to be simultaneously available, a convergence that existed for a shorter interval than the Bronze Large Date's uninterrupted run from the start of the year. Finding cuds on the Bronze Small Date is correspondingly more challenging than on the dominant Bronze Large Date, making this paired entry especially valuable to specialists tracking die failure distribution across the year's four configurations. On the bronze planchet, the interior cud's displaced metal is solid copper-zinc alloy throughout — no plating layer, no compositional boundary — producing a uniformly warm surface across the featureless raised plateau that blends with the surrounding design field's reddish tone. The paired nature of this entry confirms that the fractured die bridged the narrow window when both bronze and zinc planchets were being struck with the small date tooling. Attribution by Cuds on Coins.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Steve Young
• Expert attribution by Cuds on Coins

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