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From the latest Heritage auction. It's been a few years since I purchased a US coin for my collection and the color just caught my eye.

 

I'll bet ya paid dearly for that beauty.........

 

Rolled the dice and took a flyer on this one. Not too far from qualifying for the under $50 purchase thread. Interested to see it in person.

 

Not bad for a 42 year old quarter:

 

What's the deal with the rim below the date? Cud or damage?

 

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Not sure. Never noticed it. I'll take a better look when I can. Good eye!

 

Are these miniature cuds? Nothing spectacular, but no evidence of rim impact or damage.

 

Good question! I come here to learn and share. Doomsayers will be here any minute though.

 

I have no doubts about that! I am still a beginner in numismatics (about a year into it) but I'm happy to have some far more knowledgeable folks to defer to on various topics.

Regardless of the outcome, I'm happy to add these to my growing collection, but I'm always glad to see good news! It doesn't happen as often as I'd prefer, but learning is far more valuable to me than a coin or two!

 

They're rim cuds. http://cuds-on-coins.com/rim-cuds/

 

Rim cuds. It's also the mule.

https://www.pcgs.com/news/pcgs-recognizes-1944s-50c-us-philippines-obverse

 

Mine is a mule? I'm not exactly seeing it, but I'm mainly focusing on the volcano. The hair part isn't exactly making as much sense to me as it probably should.

 

After looking it over again (and again, and again) I'm seeing that the hair on the '44 obverse appears to stop shortly after the curve in the "C" while the mule has hair flowing up to / past the open end of the "C".

If this is true, that's fantastic! I never in a million years imagined I'd see a mule, let alone actually own one. I won't get my hopes up on this because... well, I'm too much of an optimist sometimes. And those hopes are easily dashed once more experienced people share their thoughts. Regardless, I still think it's a beautiful coin, and I think it only cost me something like $20-30.

 

My first fractional gold

 

Even though, I know like next to nothing about the series . I really like the look of that coin.