1955 S Lincoln Wheat Cent - Cud, Interior Die Break And RIDB - MS

Neat to hear about the first discovery of 100 or so.

I wonder if that group showed any progression of it getting worse or any variance in the examples?

I'll let him know! Great score!

Nice one, Batman.

beechnut,

I am afraid I am not the one to really explain exactly how this occurs, but I can show you some examples.

Most common in 1955, for whatever reason there is set of die breaks that occur on the upper skull area of Lincoln. Not just the very common "cracked skull" stuff, but die breaks. They vary from pretty minor, to the one above which is the most extreme I know of.

In general, they start with a die crack more or less horizontal across the hair (super common), and then progress with a die crack working in an arc above it. At some point the arc closes and you have a closed crack loop, and with enough time this becomes a retained interior die break.

The next part of the sequence, which can occur anywhere along the time line, is that an interior die break (loss of the piece of the die) forms along or in relationship to the horizontal original die crack.

The end result after both of these things happen is a sort of beanie for Lincoln with a bulge across the bottom where the lost die is.

I don't collect these but sometimes pull them out to give to a friend who does. I have two here in a roll and took some photos for examples. Both are 1955-P, again the most common year for this.

Hope this helps a little.

Wow. That's dramatic. I propose the name "Rooster Lincoln."

So it I have it correct, then it looks like the next step was that the first die break folded over with a small flap from the die and several coins were struck. Then the adjoining side of the towards the center die the same thing. Creating two flaps over each other. But neither let loose from the die. As more coins are struck making the break get larger, covering over the devices on the edge of the die. So the die doesn't develop an actual Cud, because the edge doesn't split off. So basically it is a double flattened die break. It would be nice to find other coins with die events I theorize to see it if happened that way. Thanks for the explanation. Maybe we figured this out?



Westernsky: I think your example was struck after Bats coin.

The mark on the back is the impression area due to there being a die break on the obverse opposite it. Occurs on a lot of Cuds for the same reason.