Date Covered by Cud?

Hello, and Happy New Year! Anyone ever see an error like this? I am very new to collecting coins, and I'm guessing this is a "cud". My mother-in-law gave the coin to me. She used to be a collector, but lost interest. She doesn't remember when she picked it up, other than "its been a while."

Question - By looking at the attached pictures, can anyone tell if it this is a real mint error? Thank you for any advice!

 

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its a fake another thread has the same coin.

 

Looks like it - sorry to hear it's a fake...

 

Question,

I have seen a piece that looks identical to this one and have no doubts that it is a genuine piece...

What makes this piece a fake? This is a pretty famous coin among cud collectors. I admit the coin looks funky...could be the pics... is this a Chinese counterfeit of the famous cud?

I ask because this piece does show up in the cud book as a genuine error... and I believe this one to be genuine as well.

 

Looks genuine! Nice one to own.

 

Can you point me in the right direction, or post a link to the thread? Thanks!

 

And I just found a couple others also! So, did the mint circulate multiple error coins, or did the counterfeiters circulate them? Or both?

This one is slightly different from mine.
http://128.192.145.172/unknown/cud.jpg

 

I see nothing which makes me suspicious of this coin. Cuds are not worth much of a premium, so are not worth the time to counterfeit usually. The weakness on the reverse opposite the cud is a good sign that it is real - not something which can be faked easily or well.

Cool error, and genuine as far as I can tell.

 

The metal of the cud has to come from somewhere. In this case it's the reverse depression. Looks real to me, but, what do I know? Nice dramatic error cud.

Bruce

 

It's actually the material that the die didn't touch.

 

The coins were struck like this until someone noticed it and the broken dies were pulled from use. There are quite a few of these particular cuds as I can remember owning at least one and seeing several more at coin shows over the years.

 

Not only is there a nice cud on the obverse but the reverse also has a retained cud at UNITED.

 

By golly I missed that one, thanks

 

That is typical for this die pair.

 

It looks good to me. The Washington quarter frequently comes with die cracks along the truncation of Washington's bust and often extending from the front and rear points of the bust to the rim. These cracks indicate a weak area in the design of the quarter and it results in the date area being the most likely place for cuds to form. There are many different dies in the washington seris with cuds over the date.

 

It looks good to me.

 

Thank you all for the in-depth cud information--more than enough to chew on!:goof:

 

Today's Teletrade auction has several of these things up for bid...
http://www.teletrade.com/coins/cat....5&subgroup_id=0&pagenum=0&pagesize=300#detail

 

sorry I think it's fake

 

It's real, look how the metal comes from the reverse of the coin.

Then again, I don't collect errors.