1973-D Lincoln Memorial Cent Obverse Cud?

Kinda looks like a rim Cud. Can ya give us an edge shot?

Looks like a Rim Cud.

Good Evening CCF! Thanks a lot everyone for your expertise, I was only aware from reading about Cuds being present on the Rim, I did not know they could be anywhere else. Here are the requested edge shots for better diagnostics, thanks everyone!

Getting ready to start my collection Topic, it will be following my Lincoln Cent Dansco Dual Album collection (7100 & 7104) from spare change and CRH, it will have a lot of my newbie questions in there so I am curious if there is a specific area I should post it? I was thinking Modern Coin General?

Very nice!

nice rim Cud

Don't mean to burst your bubble but in my opinion, this is a finned rim that has been moved/displaced metal, damage. As for the rarity factor, if it were a Cud, not that rare, size matters, the bigger the better. Look at my pics of your full coin shot close up. Your closeups mask what is really happening, once again, my opinion. Also a link to a Rim Fin. Pic has green arrows showing the movement, yellow circle shows where it was, red circle shows where it went.

Finning. https://www.error-ref.com/finning/

Alrighty CCF! Let's get it! So I have been schooling myself on rim finning for the last couple hours and thanks to all the great information here on the CCF as well as a few other sites I believe I have a decent grasp on what may be going on but need everyones opinion on this. I believe what we are seeing on this 1973-D LMC is a combination of a couple things. Great call by -makescents- this is definitely a case of Rim Fin. On the Obverse, the Finning begins at the I of the peripheral device "IN GOD WE TRUST" and goes all the way down until right before Lincoln's bust begins. Take a look here at these shots of the Obverse, some are not completely in focus but the shadows show the finning very well.



Here are some pictures of the finning discovered on the Reverse of this coin. The finning starts just above the T in United of the periphery device "UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" and ends after the left lower portion of the Lincoln Memorial and just before the O in One of the periphery device "ONE CENT". After doing a bit of research, it seems that both sides of the coin usually will display signs of finning if the die is out of level with the collar during striking of the planchet, and sure enough, that was true for this coin.



In conclusion, I believe this coin is showing both Rim Finning and a very small Cud, possibly a Cud with a portion of the die still attached. If you look at the pictures of the suspected Cud there is what seems to be a small crack reaching inboard towards the D in GOD of the peripheral device "IN GOD WE TRUST". -makescents- I agree and believe I have verified you are correct about the Rim Fin. However, I disagree about the movement of material from the yellow section you circled to the red circle in the graphic you created. To me it seems like there is too much "Normal Rim" in between the suspected movement of metal, if I understand what you meant. What I could see is a lot of squeeze out at the red circles area where the suspected Cud is located but I do not understand how that would flatten out or why it looks like there is a crack extending from one side of the suspected Cud to the other?
Whatever the CCF decides about this coin this 1973-D is still going in my collection as a coin that has increased my knowledge of Numismatics and to me that deserves appreciation!