CU-1C-1986-18 Cud

Description

Collector market dynamics for cuds reflect a niche within the broader error coin hobby, and CU-1C-1986-18 on the 1986 Philadelphia Lincoln Memorial cent trades within those established market parameters. Cuds on common-date Lincoln cents typically command modest premiums over face value in lower circulated grades, with prices rising for uncirculated specimens, large or dramatically positioned breaks, and varieties with low population reports within the Cuds on Coins census. The 1986-P date, being neither a key date nor a particularly low-mintage issue, anchors its cud values primarily in the physical characteristics of individual specimens rather than date-driven scarcity. A large, well-positioned cud on a mint state 1986-P cent might trade for considerably more than a tiny rim break on a heavily circulated example of the same date, illustrating how cud collecting prioritizes the error itself over traditional numismatic grade hierarchies. Auction records for common-date Lincoln cent cuds show a wide price range driven almost entirely by the visual impact and physical extent of the break rather than the catalog number. CU-1C-1986-18 is the eighteenth documented die break for this date. Struck at Philadelphia on copper-plated zinc planchets (97.5% zinc, 2.5% copper) at 2.5 grams and 19mm.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Marvin L
• CU-1C-1986-18
• Expert attribution by Cuds on Coins

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