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<p>[QUOTE="beef1020, post: 3162499, member: 24544"]I would not be so quick to discount the coin. Am expert could confirm in hand, but there is nothing I see in the pictures which confirms it's not a cud. Clips normally show weakness opposite the clip, Blakesley effect, but cuds don't always show weak strike on the opposite side.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would suggest bringing it to a coin show if you can, in hand it should be pretty easy to tell if it's a cud or soldered metal. Either way, I would keep the coin. In 5 years if someone finds another one then it's a confirmed cud.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Cuds don't take metal from the coin, and the missing detail from the EPU is not due to the cud. That portion would strike up before the central detail of the torch, which in this case did strike up. The missing detail is either struck through grease or PMD.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="beef1020, post: 3162499, member: 24544"]I would not be so quick to discount the coin. Am expert could confirm in hand, but there is nothing I see in the pictures which confirms it's not a cud. Clips normally show weakness opposite the clip, Blakesley effect, but cuds don't always show weak strike on the opposite side. I would suggest bringing it to a coin show if you can, in hand it should be pretty easy to tell if it's a cud or soldered metal. Either way, I would keep the coin. In 5 years if someone finds another one then it's a confirmed cud. Cuds don't take metal from the coin, and the missing detail from the EPU is not due to the cud. That portion would strike up before the central detail of the torch, which in this case did strike up. The missing detail is either struck through grease or PMD.[/QUOTE]
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