My wife got this for me years ago and I've always wanted to get it slabbed. It will receive a "Details" designation because it was recovered from.the Rooswijk, but idc. I would like to preserve it in a slab. It is currently in a mylar flip. Thoughts?

What grade would you give this 1881-o

This 1918-S wheat cent has a rim cud on the reverse at about 2:30. That part's already documented. It lines up with Cuds on Coins CU-1C-1918S-01R, and it's very likely the same reverse die.

What's interesting is lower down. Between about 3 and 4 o'clock there's a pre-cud, a heavy die crack where a piece of the die had started to break loose but hadn't come out yet. It's a separate failure from the rim cud, not the same break.

The Cuds on Coins example for 01R is pretty worn, so you can't really tell whether it had the pre-cud. You can just make out the faint top of a die crack in the same area, but there's no way to know if that's the start of the pre-cud or if wear took the rest of it. So either the 01R die had this pre-cud all along and it just doesn't show on their coin, or this is a later die state.

Either way it wasn't recorded, so I catalogued this die state and cross-referenced it to 01R. If anyone has a 01R in a different die state, I'd love to see whether the crack is there.

I just won this coin at an auction. Looking forward to getting it delivered, I’m looking forward to researching the VAM. On the reverse it has transfer marks on the right side by the wreath, has a mark spike on the left side from the top of the wing towards the N. I’ll post up what I find after receiving it & looking it up. If it’s a Vam3 or better I may send it in for grading.

Not sure if I’m in the right sub for this question or if I should post in /law