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Message:: [QUOTE="Pyrbob, post: 608965, member: 17044"]I have always been taught that cuds are at the rim.  Looking in The CUD Book by Sam Thurman and Arnold Margolis (copyright 1997) on page VIII under Historical Data is the following paragraphs: "  Del Ford published the term "cud" in "U.S. Major and Minor Mint Errors".  In his explaination, he indicated that the error looked like a chew or cud of tobacco.  This term is now commonly used by numismatic error coin collectors.  Cuds are found on all denominations of U.S. and foreign coins, tokens, medals, ect.   Mort Goodman spent over five years researching and collecting this variety of error.  He finally settled on the following definition for the error.  "An abnormally raised area of metal, on the field or design of a numismatic product, involving the edge of the die and caused by a broken die." This section then goes on to say Mort Goodman published "The Design Cud" in 1969 which was a catalogue with over 424 illustrations of cuds (with all at the edge of the coin).  So this term has been around a long time and has always meant the edge. Maybe it is common to see the term used for die chips in the middle of the coin somwhere but that doesn't mean the term is being used correctly.  I think the common place to see this is ebay, and ebay is the worst place to assume terms are used correctly.[/QUOTE]