Steel Cent Cud Found In BU Roll

[Rigo-migration]

One of our buddies at another forum found this exceptional example of a unique "CUD" while searching one of his rolls. Interesting reading at CONECA.

The coin is graded MS-66 By NGC! It is a beauty in my opinion.

 

http://www.conecaonline.org/

 

 

http://coinspace.org/forum/posts/id_1195/title_Question-on-my-1943-error-cent/

[ldhair]

Thanks for the link. Great read.

[JJSingleton]

Interesting find.

 

Just wondering, does anyone know if steel was harder on the dies than the traditional coin metals?

[Rigo-migration]

Interesting find.

 

Just wondering, does anyone know if steel was harder on the dies than the traditional coin metals?

 

Good question FatMan. Now I gotta do a research on that or hope someone gives a response to that.

[physics-fan3.14]

Yes, steel is much harder than copper. Cuds are common on most coins, however.

[Dcoin]

The real prize here is the grade along with the cud. Beautiful.

[SkyMan]

Sweet!

[James_OldeTowne]

Just wondering, does anyone know if steel was harder on the dies than the traditional coin metals?

Without question. In fact, steel cent planchets were so hard that striking pressure had to be increased significantly to impart an appropriate level of details. The steel planchets were somewhat harder than copper planchets.

 

Incidentally, the reason why all off-metal copper 1943 cents are so well struck is because the dies had already been adjusted for higher than normal striking pressure. This allowed them to produce very sharp impressions on the softer copper planchets.