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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1066817, member: 66&quot;]These were shat were once called &quot;bar&quot; nickels.&nbsp; During the early 60&#039;s the nickels had a real rash of die chips forming at the top of the date and the letters.&nbsp; Sometimes there would be just one &quot;bar&quot; and other times you could find coins that had &quot;bars&quot; over multiple letters.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is it a cud?&nbsp; Interesting question.&nbsp; The break does not include the rim of the coin, but it does include the edge of the die.&nbsp; (The die has two edges one just outside the lettering at the inner edge of the rim and another, lower down, at the outside edge of the rim.&nbsp; If the break only includes the first edge and does not reach the top of the rim you get these &quot;bars&quot;.&nbsp; If it includes the outer edge but not the inner one you get what is called a rim cud.&nbsp; If it includes both edges you have a design cud.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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