1985 LMC- Large Die Chip Or Cud?

NGiles is 100% correct. It's a bubble under the plating.

Thanks,
Bill

*Too high to be a die chip or cud- its still metal.*

Thanks CC for the explanation on the differences.

Please re-look at the pictures.

There is a metal outline going around the entire section mentioned.

is this where the oxidation is starting if it is a bubble,

or can this still possibly be a die chip or Cud.?

I'm not at home right now but i'll send better pics later tonight to high-light the metal outline- its definitely there going around the entire raised area.

It's bulbous - it's not a hard-line outline. It looks like air was blown into the plating from inside the coin. The bubble you're showing developed on the coin from inside the planchet. The die was completely flat and normal. If it were something IN the die, the outline would be sharp, straight-lined, and crisp...if it were a broken piece from a die, the outline would be very sharp and jagged, like a bolt of lightning. They would also normally be tied to a device on the coin - 99% of all die breaks happen around devices, not in the middle of the field.

For information sake, if this were the result of a broken die, it could not be a Cud. Cuds are ONLY at the edge of the design. They are the result of a piece of the die breaking off the edge.

It must be on the edge of the design...otherwise it simply is not a Cud.