CU-1C-1982-19 Cud

Description

Nineteenth in the 1982 Philadelphia cud census, CU-1C-1982-19 is assigned to the Bronze Large Date subtype — a pre-transition coin whose 95% copper composition and 3.1-gram weight immediately set it apart from the lighter zinc cents that would dominate the second half of the year. Die life on bronze planchets differed from die life on zinc: the harder, denser copper alloy imposed different stress patterns on working dies, and the rate at which rim fractures developed may have varied between the two compositions. Documenting cuds separately by subtype allows future researchers to investigate whether bronze or zinc production generated proportionally more die failures, a question that speaks directly to how planchet material properties influence die longevity. The Cuds on Coins census number serves as the standard reference for this variety, with no secondary cross-references to other attribution systems assigned. Philadelphia's 1982 Large Date bronze cents represent the last unbroken link to decades of copper cent production — a continuity that ended permanently when the Mint completed the transition to zinc-core planchets. Attribution by Cuds on Coins.

Attribution History

• Discovered by G
• CU-1C-1982-19
• Expert attribution by Cuds on Coins

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