SKH-1c-2018D-01 Spiked Head

Description

Opening the 2018 Denver Mint spiked head catalog, SKH-1c-2018D-01 on the 2018 (D) Lincoln Shield Cent documents the first confirmed portrait-area die crack from Denver's production that year. The transition from the extensively documented 2017 date to 2018 provides a natural comparison point: researchers can examine whether the frequency and character of spiked heads remained consistent across consecutive production years at the same facility, or whether changes in die steel batches, press maintenance schedules, or production volumes altered the incidence rate. Denver's 2018 cent output continued the multi-billion-unit annual production that characterizes modern cent manufacturing, ensuring a large die population and correspondingly numerous opportunities for individual dies to develop fatigue-related cracks. The -01 designation marks this as the pioneer entry for the 2018-D spiked head sequence, and its documentation establishes the reference baseline for any subsequent Denver 2018 entries. Attributed and cataloged by Cuds on Coins from Denver Mint production.

Attribution History

• Discovered by Richard Dryden
• Cross reference: none. 06/13/2018.
• Expert attribution by Cuds on Coins

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