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Good grief. I go a lifetime without finding a Retained Cud, and now I've found five in three weeks. This is a 1955-S cent, a decent AU with some carbon spots. The obverse has a plugged first "5" in the date. That's the easy diagnostic for this coin. The reverse is RCD-1c-1955S-01R, with a nice twist. The known RCD is adjacent to the right wheat stalk. This coin must be a later die state, because is also has an unreported RCD adjacent to the left wheat stalk. BOGO sale on RCDs? The price was right. This was pulled from circulation at one cent back in the 1960s. I had no idea it was a RCD until this week. Here are the obligatory mug shots:   And the date and mm:  And a closeup of the right side, which was identified in RCD-1c-1955S-01R.  And a closeup of the left side, with its second RCD.  |
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Very nice!  |
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That is an erroneously errored error.
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 very nice |
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Very nice pick-up @FC!
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That's an uncommon Retained Cud, but looks to be the same die state as the plate coin on C-O-C. Die crack with die chips on the left wheat but not really seeing a Retained Cud there. |
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@tropicalbats, the left crack emerges from the wheat stalk about 2mm north of the last grain, runs to the inside of the rim, and cuts across the rim about 1 mm above where it meets the rim.  |
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Your images are fantastic, which really helps. But I am still thinking die crack (rim to rim it would seem) but just can't see the movement along the crack that would make it a Retained Cud. |
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Very nice find! Retained Cuds are very fun to collect and they're very cool. Errers and Varietys.
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I see one Retained Cud. The second are looks more like a die crack so far. The collar holds the Retained Cud in pl so far. |
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Quote:But I am still thinking die crack (rim to rim it would seem) but just can't see the movement along the crack that would make it a Retained Cud. Quote:I see one Retained Cud. The second are looks more like a die crack so far. The collar holds the Retained Cud in pl so far. Ahhhh, I see the point you both are making. A die crack it is. Thank you for the help with this. For certain, it's one rode-hard-and-put-away-wet die. |
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