CU-25c-2001P-01R(RI) Cud

Description

Rhode Island's State Quarter, designed by Daniel Carr and depicting a vintage sailboat on Narragansett Bay with the Pell Bridge in the background, received its first documented reverse cud with CU-25c-2001P-01R(RI). The "01R" suffix confirms this as the initial reverse rim break cataloged for the 2001-P Rhode Island issue, with the "(RI)" state abbreviation distinguishing it from cuds on other 2001 State Quarter designs. Philadelphia struck 423,000,000 Rhode Island quarters in 2001, the third year of the fifty-state program that introduced five new reverse designs annually from 1999 through 2008. Cataloged by Cuds on Coins with no additional cross-reference number, this cud represents a major die break where a piece of the reverse die fractured away at the rim, leaving a raised featureless area on struck coins. The nautical imagery of Rhode Island's reverse — with the sailboat's mast, hull, and the Pell Bridge's suspension cables — provides identifiable design elements adjacent to the rim that help locate the cud's position relative to the coin's design geography. State Quarter cuds have a dedicated following among error collectors because each of the fifty state designs creates a unique visual context for the die break, and the ten-year duration of the program generated thousands of die pairs across five mints, producing a substantial population of documentable rim breaks.

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