I was going through a box that I haven’t looked at since the late 80’s and came across this 3-cent nickel I bought at a coin shop circa 1983. I did a quick internet search and didn’t come across anything, so I figured one of the experts here may have seen this before. The obverse has two prominent die breaks. One at 11:30, the other at 4:00. Is it rare, irrelevant, interesting or something else? Only curious for information sake, don’t plan on selling it. And I don’t really care about the grade. Thank you. Sorry for the poor photo, I just snapped it with my cell to get it uploaded quickly.
The break at K12 is called a retained CUD. They are some of the neatest die failure mechanisms out there.
It's very well that that could be retained cud at 12, I looked at it more like a Lamination. Cool coin Barry!
The nickel three cents, like the shield nickels, suffer greatly from die cracks, retained cuds, and full cuds. As with the shield nickels it is more unusual to find one that DOESN't have die cracks. 55 posts to go
