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Is This A Cud On This 1954 S Nickel?

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@josh, those are in the right location to be Cuds, but this looks more like metal smeared over from the rim. This type of damage suggests to me that you have a Dryer Coin there.
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not a Cud,
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When you look at what happens to a die when a Cud appears, you are shocked at what happened:
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Note how the outside edges of the dies were affected? A big loss of metal on that area. How does the happen? When the die breaks away it is not a single strike episode. It starts with a single crack. Then the single crack connects with a second crack. Then it forms a Retained Cud:
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Somewhere down the line that area will break away and then a Cud will happen:
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While this is not the same die, but you can tell that a lot broke away to form this Cud coin.
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So a Cud is a large area breaking off of the die. As on your coin it is not anything like a real Cud. But I thought you might need to see what the die goes through, before a Cud actually happens.
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Rim Fin is my thinking too
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