Is This The Pits?

This really looks like cud at the 11 & 12 o'clock of this 2011 P penney, but....... any thoughts?

 

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I see a damaged/corroded area there.

How about a photo of the complete reverse showing?

It's not a cud, a die crack, or any error - look at the
surfaces of your coin. They've been damaged/altered
and you're seeing a stain or corrosion spot, nothing more.

 

yeet

 

A cud is an extra blob of metal on the edge/rim.

 

Excuse me for being OCD, but...

It can't be an "extra blob" of metal. Where would the extra metal come from? The planchet is made of a fixed amount of metal, no more. What happens is that a break in the die, itself, allows coin metal that was intended to flow into one space to flow into another space created by the break.

A cud is a break along the rim that extends into the field.

Chris

 

This is next for your coin. I see at least one plating bubble that that has popped and that means the dreaded zinc rot has begun. The D mint mark has fallen in the zinc hole of this cent. It’s hard to tell on yours how bad the rot is. Those darn Zincolns! I collect Lincoln cents but I stopped collecting any cent past 1982 for this reason. I put the bellow pictured coin away in a 2x2 back in the early nineties as a gem BU example to my surprise 15 years later this is what I got for my efforts to conserve Zincolns. I don’t even look at my other Zincolns I’ve carefully “conserved” no more zinc for me.
Reed.

 

Not a cud, just zinc rot.

 

CRAPPY ZINCOLNS!

 

Zinc bubbles... popped.

 

Yes indeed. I can’t wait for the discontinuation of the 1cent, 5cent and 10cent coins. It will happen but how soon is the question. I want the Zincoln gone and all I collect is Lincoln cents.
Reed

 

It's zits, deja vu!

Chris

 

plating bubbles.

Any time you see weird or odd things on a zincoln (post 1982) it's probably a plating / corrosion problem.

Plus don't forget, if you pulled this out of circulation you don't know what it's been through. After all, it's being used as money, not as a "collectable". Think of how many places you see piles of coins .. wife's purse, cup holder with soda pop spills, under the car seat/floor mat with salt corrosion, on the ground/parking lot .. the list goes on forever ....

Also the zinc reacts to steam, such as the type that is found through your washer/dryer combo ... so think about that ...

 

the lincoln cents will outlast the zincolns .. you just have a wait.

 

Hey, your bold and Fonts work OK !

 

But not for long.

 

Yes there's no extra metal, it comes from the planchet, it just appears that way.

 

Yes, I read that and I guess that doesn't apply here. Maybe just ......I don't know, a defect of some sort.
How about a die defect?

 

Yes, good point. That complete area could have been corroded chemically. OK, to the spending pile she goes......

 

I usually go by the USA Coins 2020 (or whatever year), Guide Book and it's def. of a cud is; "An area of raised metal at the rim of the coin where a portion of the die broke off, leaving a void in the design." ".... at the rim....", being the key here. Or at least that's what I understand.

 

Got it.