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  • AUandAGAUandAG Posts: 24,802 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Cracked obverse die (error) and scratches (damage).

    bob :)

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  • @AUandAG said:
    Cracked obverse die (error) and scratches (damage).

    bob :)

    Just damaged then? Not worth anything?

  • OAKSTAROAKSTAR Posts: 7,735 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2, 2025 3:30PM

    That seems to be a very nice bisecting rim to rim die crack (or maybe a lamination, I can't tell) and unless I'm missing it, I don't see one listed here.

    http://cuds-on-coins.com/rim-to-rim-die-cracks-on-u-s-coins-2/

    Disclaimer: I'm not a dealer, trader, grader, investor or professional numismatist. I'm just a hobbyist. (To protect me but mostly you! 🤣 )

  • jacrispiesjacrispies Posts: 1,062 ✭✭✭✭✭

    First impression was lamination, but there is some strange light reflection by the date so it may simply be a glue layer on the coin.

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  • jonathanbjonathanb Posts: 3,661 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Please show the full coin, face on, both sides, without editing the pictures to crop the edges. Bonus if you can add an edge-on shot near the date area.

  • @jonathanb said:
    Please show the full coin, face on, both sides, without editing the pictures to crop the edges. Bonus if you can add an edge-on shot near the date area.

    I put it in a holder here is the best I can do to show

  • JBKJBK Posts: 15,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I'm still not sure what I'm looking at. Possible catastrophic die failure in progress?

  • @JBK said:
    I'm still not sure what I'm looking at. Possible catastrophic die failure in progress?

    Thanks ! I will look that up

  • emeraldATVemeraldATV Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @OAKSTAR said:
    That seems to be a very nice bisecting rim to rim die crack (or maybe a lamination, I can't tell) and unless I'm missing it, I don't see one listed here.

    http://cuds-on-coins.com/rim-to-rim-die-cracks-on-u-s-coins-2/

    Remember we are just spitballing here.
    I found something interesting at first glance of your coin .
    I've been researching a coin without an exact date and remembered a crack in, some what, of the same spot.
    See the crack passing through the upper part of the last no. 5 in your 1955 dated coin, as seen below.
    .

    .
    Now look at this image.
    Arrows...... on the researching coin.
    That's a 5, with could be another crack passing through the same upper part of a 5, but distorted and out of place.
    So far that's all I got, I ran out of spit.
    .

  • @emeraldATV said:

    Remember we are just spitballing here.
    I found something interesting at first glance of your coin .
    I've been researching a coin without an exact date and remembered a crack in, some what, of the same spot.
    See the crack passing through the upper part of the last no. 5 in your 1955 dated coin, as seen below.
    .

    .
    Now look at this image.
    Arrows...... on the researching coin.
    That's a 5, with could be another crack passing through the same upper part of a 5, but distorted and out of place.
    So far that's all I got, I ran out of spit.
    .

    Ok thank you for the examples of pictures helps a lot! 🙏

  • emeraldATVemeraldATV Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Here's the full monty.

  • IkesTIkesT Posts: 3,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2, 2025 5:15PM

    @Fordee4 said:
    Ok thank you for the examples of pictures helps a lot! 🙏

    They shouldn't, because what he just showed you is actually damaged garbage.

  • emeraldATVemeraldATV Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @IkesT said:

    They shouldn't, because what he just showed you is actually damaged garbage.

    I'm just driving solo, on a double lane highway, following a so called, damaged, garbage truck.
    And....... "I can't drive 55".
    :o

  • @IkesT said:

    They shouldn't, because what he just showed you is actually damaged garbage.

    So what are you trying to say??

  • IkesTIkesT Posts: 3,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2, 2025 7:08PM

    @Fordee4 said:

    So what are you trying to say??

    You said that the pictures from emeraldATV helped a lot. I'm saying they should not have been helpful to you, because they are just photos of a random damaged coin.

    The quality of your own photos is not great, but I agree with an earlier poster that your coin might have a lamination error.

  • @IkesT said:

    You said that the pictures from emeraldATV helped a lot. I'm saying they should not have been helpful to you, because they are just photos of a random damaged coin.

    The quality of your own photos is not great, but I agree with an earlier poster that your coin might have a lamination error.

       
    

    Well I think he/she was just trying to point out the crack and thats what I took from it so ...to each it's own ya know

  • emeraldATVemeraldATV Posts: 4,718 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Like I stated in my first post.
    Spitballing -
    kicking a proper answer around, of a question, for someone who took the time to come here and ask the question.
    There are a lot of 55's that are not garbage, just to be clear.
    (Research works better than the cliff notes ikest. I'd love to continue this battle of wits but I see that your unarmed)
    Play nice, now or the other images found go into a private message.
    Out to lunch.

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