BROKEN DIE ERRORS

ON UNITED STATES & WORLD COINS & TOKENS

This site is a catalog of United Sates and World coins and tokens.
that were struck with a broken or cracked die.

As of 01/01/2024   8,355 listings and over 28,000 images.

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Images are courtesy of Keith Christenson

Cuds-on-coins is designed to be a comprehensive visual database encompassing a wide range of die errors caused by brittle failure.  Its original focus was “cuds”, a cud is a marginal die break; an error produced when a piece breaks off the edge of a die and involves the rim and at least a little bit of the adjacent field of design. The database has now been expanded to other types of broken die errors listed in the column to the left.

Image is courtesy of Ken Potter

Buyer Beware “NOT A CUD”

When looking at Cuds in 2”x2” flips what looks like a Cud could be edge damage as seen in the images below.

Images are courtesy of Jim Reed

01/08/2024

JC Stevens – Editor / Administration

Peter Lukic – Administration

Robert (BJ) Neff – Founder / Adviser

Mike Diamond – Adviser 

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