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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ToughCOINS, post: 2928400, member: 20480&quot;]I know very little of foreign coins, but the reverse of the coin does not look damaged to me.&nbsp; In fact, it looks much as I would expect for a cud.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cuds of appreciable size like the one pictured will often appear damaged on the opposite side because the planchet metal flows along the path of least resistance when struck by the dies.&nbsp; Absent the missing piece of the obverse die, most of the metal that ordinarily would completely fill the letters in the reverse periphery will instead barely dip into those characters in the&nbsp; die, if at all, leaving them poorly defined or even indistinct in the area opposite the cud.&nbsp; The depth of the lost cud determines the extent to which material is diverted from its intended destination on the opposite side.&nbsp; A deep cud will obliterate all detail opposite the cud, and a shallow cud will not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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