CU-1C-2000-03 Cud

Description

Third cataloged cud on the 2000 Philadelphia Lincoln Memorial Cent, CU-1C-2000-03 documents a die rim fracture on a millennial-year issue that saw massive production volumes as the U.S. Mint maintained cent output through the Y2K transition. Philadelphia struck approximately 5.5 billion cents in 2000, an output that consumed thousands of die pairs over the course of the year, and three documented cuds for this date-mint provides a modest sample of the die failures that inevitably occurred across such enormous production runs. Frank Gasparro's Lincoln Memorial reverse, in its forty-second year of production by 2000, had become the most familiar reverse design in American pocket change, and cuds on Memorial Cents create particularly recognizable varieties because the architectural precision of the Memorial colonnade provides a stark contrast against the featureless raised blob of the cud. No additional cross-references exist beyond the primary CU-1C-2000-03 designation. Cataloged by Cuds on Coins, this variety represents the intersection of systematic die failure documentation with one of the highest-volume production dates in Lincoln Cent history, where the statistical probability of die fracture events is proportional to the enormous number of dies manufactured and consumed during the production year.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Jerry Long
• CU-1C-2000-03; number: none.
• Expert attribution by Cuds on Coins

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