CU-1c-1982-76 (SD) Cud

Description

Cross-referenced to *LC-82 SD-15 from the 2001 edition of The Cud Book Supplement, CU-1c-1982-76(SD) documents an interior cud on the 1982 Philadelphia Lincoln Memorial cent struck on the 2.5-gram copper-plated zinc planchet with the compact small date numerals. The asterisk preceding the LC-82 SD-15 designation indicates this entry's provenance in The Cud Book Supplement rather than the original volume, marking it as a later discovery that extended the baseline reference catalog. The LC system's fifteenth Small Date entry for 1982 connects this cud to an independent attribution framework whose numbering — reaching at least SD-15 — documents a substantial inventory of Small Date die failures cataloged outside the Cuds on Coins census system. On the copper-plated zinc planchet, the thin copper shell over the zinc core fills the fractured die void with layered material whose compositional boundary can produce diagnostic surface textures at the transition zone between intact design and the raised featureless plateau. Small Date cuds at this depth in the census represent uncommon finds owing to the subtype's more limited die deployment compared to the Large Date configuration. The dual attribution through both the Cuds on Coins census and The Cud Book Supplement provides triangulated identification. Attribution by Cuds on Coins.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Steve Young
• Cross reference: *LC-82 SD-15. 02/08/2021.
• Expert attribution by Cuds on Coins

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