If they were cuds, you would see a weakness on the opposite side. For example, with a cud on the date, you would expect to see weakness in part of AMERICA on the reverse. Chris Oops! My mistake. The weakness should be between 2 & 3 o'clock.
The image may not be completely clear, but it does look a little weak on the opposite sides on both. Almost looks curved a bit looking at the side in those one spots.
Where this gets interesting for me...I'm seeing weaker rims on the reverse sides opposite the "cuds".
Dunno...I think they bear closer inspection myself. The coin on the left gets that "soldered" look because there's that dot between LIBERTY and the date. On the right, I have seen that rippled effect before on a broken die.
