1983 Error or PMD?

[jhracing08]

Found this in a bank roll today. PMD or what?

[jcuve]

I would think it might have originated as a plating issue but was enhanced by environmental ones later...or all environmental...hard to say...

[JeanK]

I have looked at your coin a couple of times and compared it with all the pictures I could find of cuds. It does appear to be similar to the LC-83-49R in "The Cud Book" by Thurman and Margolis. Your coin has a much larger break than the photograph in the book.
If it is not a cud then it is likely to be an improper plating problem. There is more damage on the steps also.
A nice find!
Jean

[jhracing08]

I have looked at your coin a couple of times and compared it with all the pictures I could find of cuds. It does appear to be similar to the LC-83-49R in "The Cud Book" by Thurman and Margolis. Your coin has a much larger break than the photograph in the book.
If it is not a cud then it is likely to be an improper plating problem. There is more damage on the steps also.
A nice find!
Jean

Thanks Jean, I had no clue what is was when I saw it. It was kind of surprising.

[jhracing08]

Doesn't a "Cud" have to be a raised piece of metal tho?

[jcuve]

A CUD would be raised like a bubble on one side and depressed (with a loss of the design) on the other. I don't think this is a CUD.

[trails]

What I think you have here is that the zinc core has deteriorated and the copper plate has split over that deterioration causing it to sink in towards the core. Anyway, it is not a "Cud" or a preformatiion of that anomaly type

BJ Neff