2023-P Lincoln Cent Obverse Retained Die Breaks

Greetings,
My first post here, and I look forward to learning from and sharing with this forum. I mostly collect Lincoln Cent Re-punched mint marks and doubled dies before 1964. I also love finding mint errors and puzzling anomalies on coins.

I post today because, in search of the illusive 2023-P Lincoln Cent VDB V coin--of which I found none in ten OBW rolls--I did find some interesting cracks and retained die breaks that Jean Cohen (author of THE CLASSIFICATION AND VALUE OF ERRORS ON THE Lincoln Cent) would have loved. I found 3 stages of what seems to be a progression from a large die crack, starting above Lincoln's eyebrow, bifurcating into two cracks, and then exiting just below WE (IN GOD WE TRUST) with a retained die break and a crack that goes into WE. One can see a large die gouge above Lincoln's eyebrow. The NS die cracks branch out westward in an arc and stop. There is also a separate arced die crack behind the ear.

I don't have an example of this network of die cracks being abraded, but the die cracks can still be seen in a few places. The arced die crack that travels west from the first crack, is still there and has sprouted two impressive retained die breaks.

The 3rd stage show the coin with all of the retained die breaks and cracks abraded---a sloppy abrasion IMHO. I've also included another stage of the first crack where the western part of the NS bifurcated crack becomes a canyon.






[This post had originally called the RDBs cuds, which was incorrect. The post has been revised thanks to Dearborn's note.]