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1883/2 Shield Nickel - Overdate FS-303, Retained Cud 01

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Picked this FS-303 off ebay a little while ago. The Retained Cud was known but not listed, so JC listed it from this coin as RCD-5C-1883/2-01 (SN). Coin is now at PCGS.

https://cuds-on-coins.com/shield-nickel-rcd/

1883/2 Shield nickel - overdate FS-303, Retained Cud 01


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Fantastic coin, tropicalbats!
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Thanks! I'm hoping it will go low end MS and not AU. I don't really see any circulation wear on the high points but it has enough marks that I could see it grading a bit lower.
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Great eye to spot that one, congrats! =)

Looking forward to the PCGS results.
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Great coin! Nice purchase!
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Great example!
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Die stages of this variety are well-known. You can see them at
https://www.shieldnickels.net/1883_2/fs013_2.html

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True! Lots of known die stages on that page. I am quite sure JC would love to list all the die stages if images were submitted. So looking at the known die stages on the Shield nickel site, I can guess that the cud-01 for this year is actually FS-303 although not noted on cuds-on-coins as such. The coin in this posting is the only Retained Cud die stage listed for FS-303.

https://cuds-on-coins.com/shield-nickel-rcd/

And speaking of such, according to the linked Shield nickel page this coin would be an unlisted die stage between F-10b+ and F-10c as it has two cracks from the second 8 toward the rim.

It has arrived back from PCGS and went MS62, so quite happy with the result (cert 58923691 if you want to see the true view). I had FS-303 put on the label, but did not submit it as an error coin for the Retained Cud. With PCGS if a coin is graded as a mint error it gets a special number and can not be added to a registry.
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Great results!
TrueView looks pretty good too!
https://www.pcgs.com/cert/58923691

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Nice win and a great coin !
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wow, that's pretty sharp. I'm having trouble seeing the 2 though, is it not easily seen?
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Sweet!
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I agree that the underlying 2 is quite hard to see on these. There are some images online that show the early die stage of this coin and you can see it a bit better, but overall it's not super obvious by any means.
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very nice
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