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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 26131093, member: 66&quot;]The nickel three cent and the shield nickel both suffered from very short die life due to the hard nickel alloy&nbsp; If the three cent had the same die life as the shield nickel you could expect there to be around 800 die pairs for that year.&nbsp; It definitely looks to me like a rim cud.</p><p><br /></p><p>Gosh I wish I had pictures/drawings.&nbsp; Imagine the surface of the die,&nbsp; The fields of the die are flat and the highest part of the die.&nbsp; At the edge of the field there is a &quot;step down&quot;.&nbsp; This is the area that creates the dentils.&nbsp; As you go further out there is another step down.&nbsp; This is the area that forms the top surface of the rim.&nbsp; Go out a little more and you reach the edge of the die where it drops straight down to form the neck of the die. </p><p><br /></p><p>Usually on a rim cud the die chips away on that second step to the die neck and the result is a raised lump on the flat surface of the rim.&nbsp; On this coin the section that creates the dentils between the field and the second stop down has chipped away creating a raised area on the dentils that is the same height as the rim,[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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