PC-25c-1993P-01 Pre-Cud

Description

The PC-25c-1993P-01 extends pre-cud documentation from the Lincoln cent series into the Washington quarter, demonstrating that the same progressive die failure mechanism that affects one-cent dies can appear across denominations when working dies are pushed toward or beyond their operational limits. On the 1993-P Washington Quarter—struck at the Philadelphia Mint in clad composition—the die involved in this pre-cud developed a crack that had advanced far enough to produce the characteristic sinking and displacement of die material behind the fracture zone, causing the raised, weakly impressed area on struck examples that defines the pre-cud category. The quarter die's larger diameter relative to a cent die means that the affected region may appear proportionally smaller relative to the coin face, but the underlying metallurgical failure process is identical. No cross-reference number is recorded for this variety. Cataloged and verified by Cuds on Coins, the PC-25c-1993P-01 is one of the earlier documented pre-cuds on the Washington quarter series and contributes to the growing understanding of die failure patterns across the modern clad coinage era.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Chuck Newman
• Expert attribution by Cuds on Coins

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