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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 300198, member: 66&quot;]That&#039;s how a retained cud works.&nbsp; The pieces that have broken off the die have not fallen away, they have just shifted downward so that they are below the level of the rest of the die.&nbsp; (Typically retained cuds are found on the anvil die because the pieces are prevented from falling away by the collar that the anvil die fits into.&nbsp; In order to fall &quot;out&quot; they have to be bounced up and out of the coining chamber.&nbsp; When a piece breaks away from a hammer die there is nothing to hold it in place and it almost always falls away forming a full cud.&nbsp; There are a few retained cuds known from hammer dies but they are very rare.)&nbsp; When the coin is struck the planchet metal flows down into the hole in the die forming the raised lump of a cud, but it isstill able to make contact with the piece of the die that has been shoved down and so it still shows part of the diesign from that piece.&nbsp; Just shifted up on top of the lump.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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