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Rim to rim die crack?

Coin_nut1977Coin_nut1977 Posts: 1,517 ✭✭✭✭✭

Curious about this penny. Rim to rim die rack. Do die cracks usually go all the way across? Thanks for any help

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  • edwardjulioedwardjulio Posts: 1,021 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Here is an example of a bisecting die crack, rim to rim.

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  • Coin_nut1977Coin_nut1977 Posts: 1,517 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @edwardjulio said:
    Here is an example of a bisecting die crack, rim to rim.

    Thank you for sharing! Wasn’t for sure.

  • WDPWDP Posts: 517 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Die cracks as a rule don't always go all the way across the obverse or reverse. But they can and do sometimes.

    I personally like coins struck from Very Late Die States (VLDS) with bisecting cracks. This photo illustrates a heavy bisecting die break on the reverse of a very rare early silver dollar from my collection, a 1798 B-5, BB-93 Draped Bust, Heraldic Eagle Dollar. This die break you can see without a glass.

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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,515 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Sometimes they get really, really severe like this one, owned by BrokenCC in Carson City,

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  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 28, 2019 9:55AM

    I can't see anything in the OP's super small photos now available at your local PCGS forum.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Really difficult to see in the OP... I see both ends, but cannot see the middle...picture will not enlarge... probably there though... Cheers, RickO

  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 31,499 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Might just be two radial die cracks. One of the two 1922 cent reverses with the radial crack at 11 o’clock through the O of OF has an unrelated radial crack at 2 o’clock.

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  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Coin_nut1977 said:
    Curious about this penny. Rim to rim die rack. Do die cracks usually go all the way across? Thanks for any help

    I’m probably not seeing the pic correctly, but, a crack on the die would appear as a filled/built-up “line” on the coin as the metal is pressed into the crack(s) of the die.

    The crack on the OP’s cent appears as an open crevice, i.e., the coin is/has been “cracked.”

    Maybe too much food and half asleep.

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  • Wahoo554Wahoo554 Posts: 1,086 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This one has a rim to rim die crack on the obverse.

  • JBKJBK Posts: 14,637 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That's interesting. I did not recall the CW stoty about a broken Morgan, but I do recall the one about the extreme offcenter Morgan that was sent out and received by a non-collector, if I recall correctly.

  • lkeigwinlkeigwin Posts: 16,885 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Here's a bust half with die cracks, rim-to-rim, along with some other fun ones.
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  • Coin_nut1977Coin_nut1977 Posts: 1,517 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @lkeigwin said:
    Here's a bust half with die cracks, rim-to-rim, along with some other fun ones.
    Lance.


    Bust half can you explain? Very new to coin collecting

  • Coin_nut1977Coin_nut1977 Posts: 1,517 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Hemispherical said:

    @Coin_nut1977 said:
    Curious about this penny. Rim to rim die rack. Do die cracks usually go all the way across? Thanks for any help

    I’m probably not seeing the pic correctly, but, a crack on the die would appear as a filled/built-up “line” on the coin as the metal is pressed into the crack(s) of the die.

    The crack on the OP’s cent appears as an open crevice, i.e., the coin is/has been “cracked.”

    Maybe too much food and half asleep.

    Happy Thanksgiving!

  • tommy44tommy44 Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Shown this one in other threads but here it is again. A crack from the E in STATES to the E in FIVE and also has a crack from the eagle's neck to the edge of the eagle's wing.

    Here's the obverse, it has a crack from the bottom of the bun to the center of the curl on the neck.

    it's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide

  • CharlotteDudeCharlotteDude Posts: 2,876 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Yep - happens with branch mint gold also...

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