I have found a 1990 Canadian loonie coin with a strange lump near the edge. There is no indent on the opposite side, the coin is not bent and the top of the "E" and "L" in ELIZABETH and the bordering dots can be seen in the blob itself. Is this considered an error? If so is it worth anything more than $1.00 canadian? Thanks Sorry for the poor quality images.
After more research....would this be considered a rim cud? Sorry for my extreme ignorance. I am just starting off in the world of coin collecting. Thanks
No need to appologize. I have been collecting off and on for about 30 years. What you said about "rim cud" was new to me too. There is a lot very new to me. That is why I like this forum. It is not above my head most of the time, and I enjoy learning about coins.
Thats sort of what a cud could look like. A cud is the result of a chunk of the die around the perimeter of the die breaking off and leaving that part of the coin unstruck. However, since your coin shows the dots and part of a letter on the bubble were struck it can't be a cud. My guess it's corrosion under the plating causing the bubble.
I have to agree with the bubble theory here. something has pushed that area of the coin up, if it was a cud the die would not be there to strike that area. Now.. with that being said could it be plausible that perhaps the die dented along the edge causing this ? Can a die dent?
I had'nt thought about that possibility but it looks to me that the top of the "L" is fully formed. If something hit the die hard enough to make a dent I think it would have flattened that area enough to affect how the letter was formed.
