1993 D LMC With Super Large Die Chip

Monika;

I buy my bags from all over the country, it depends on the year I want and the amount I want to pay for them.
I demand to see clear close up pictures of the thread that has sewn the bag shut and over all condition of the bag.

As for ebay, there are places to get unsearched rolls. You just have to look in the right area or, don't buy from a person who sells strictly coins.

A find in circulated coins is cool, it cuts the cost way down - it nearly searching for free and paying one cent for any type of error/variety you may find. That is hard to beat !

Monika;

I have gone through a LOT of pennies this fall from these mint sewn bags. I am happy to have what I pulled from the bags, no question about it. In all those mint pennies I pulled maybe 2-3 Lamination errors, No off-center, and only the 1960-D is producing the die chips (at an incredible rate. I like to have variety in my well, varieties.

Seems odd - almost seems backwards - where the Boxes from the bank can produce a better selection of varieties over mint bags. I guess you have to weigh (no pun intended) the pro's and cons and apply them to bags which are BU and the boxes are get what is in there. Bag prices can be a doozie, where the boxes are about as cheap as they get.

I enjoyed the first 1972-P bag. It was amazing. The batch of 19 DDO's I sent in came back better than expected, and will definitely help pay off the cost of the bag. We plan on taking a lot of rolls to the Baltimore Show in March 2014 and I am looking forward to having a great time up there. Once I get the new Ecommerce website up, I will add it to me signature. I've always had a desire to do an educational website of sorts and coins will fit that quite nicely.

I have a hook up at a major bank, and I think I can get as many boxes as I want. I may revisit that one day, but its only if the son helps and we can blast through a box or two a week.
Plus, I have a wholesalers account with NF String and geez did I need that, we have sooooo many pennies around here that we rolled up close to 600 rolls ! All of these are BU. I have about 20 or so rolls, maybe more of circulated copper cents that I will revisit and look for RPMs and such.

Glad to see your coin experience is paying off. If you hit anything big let me know - heck let us all know !

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Monika you need to put an ebay link on here.

On top of it being such a big Cud it is in pretty nice looking condition!

John, I do agree with you that it is a very large "die chip" but in all reality it is still a Cud or better yet a die break. http://coins.about.com/od/coinsglos..._defined.htm

Definition: A Cud is a damaged area resembling a blob on the surface of a coin which is raised above the field a little, and which obliterates the device or inscription where it appears. Cuds are the result of die cracks which have become severe, or from die chips where part of the die surface has become damaged and broken away.

Some experts in the error-variety hobby insist that for the blob to be called a Cud, the damaged part of the die must include part of the edge of the die. Although this is the purist definition, in common parlance you'll see the term " Cud" used to describe the blob created by any die chip or serious die crack, regardless of its placement on the die or coin.

Very small Cuds are not usually valuable unless they appear on Proof coins. Cuds which can be seen by the naked eye are usually worth a small premium over normal value, and some Cuds have actually been cataloged and are collectible, such as those on Morgan dollars or between the letters of LIBERTY on Wheat Cents.

Same here.
I've been taught that;

Its a die chip if the devices around the chip still show details
Its a Cud if it comes in contact or is very close to the rim of the coin.
Its a die break if a portion of the break assumes a line. The die break can have areas that appear to be die chips, but are not.
Its a die crack if the crack itself shows a decent amount of separation through most of the line.

Call this coin as you see it, but in the end, its a Whopper

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Like they say, old habits die hard, and these are stuck in me brain, so there's no changing it now.

So why does it really even matter what I called it? I showed you another website that explains in full detail what a die chip, crack, break and Cud are. They can all be lumped into one category when the chip gets big (The Die Breaks). I will say that 90% of people will call them die chips or breaks and would not call it a Cud so I might be in the wrong there but if you don't believe the die was broken or that it is a "Die Break" than you are just nitpicking my wording.