1981 Lincoln Memorial Cent cud

Tonight I found a very nice cud on an 1981 Lincoln Memorial Cent.

Grrr! I've gone through about 100,000 cents without finding something this nice! Good job man. I'm jealous.

Two questions:
1. What is a cud?
2. Is the coin below a cud? Above 'one' appear to be tears of metal and in the field above the harp there is some polution as well. [EDIT]: beneath the claw of the Welsh dragon is some more superfluous metal.

Yes, those are cuds.

A cud is basically leftover metal on a coin. They are technically errors and they aren't too common on modern coinage.

I wasn't aware of the term cud. I thought the extra pieces of metal were known as scissels...left on the plain planchet after cutting of the planchet. Then when the minting process occurs on the planchet the extra metal can become impressed on the planchet or fall off leaving a minting error.

Verweis : ArnoV1. What is a cud?

My English-Dutch dictionary came up with a peculiar way of consuming tobacco, but I should have looked further than the length of my nose.

http://coins.about.com/od/coinsglossary/g/cud_defined.htm

Thanks to Google allknowing, Google omnipresent and Google what-was-the-other-one-again.

So it appears I have an interesting penny, then.