Die cracks on $2 1/2 Gold Indian

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• BillJones Posts: 35,763 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 11, 2014 8:03AM

  Have you examined those to see if they are INTO the surface of the coin? Sometimes a scratch will form a raised farrow that looks like a die break, but if you look at it more carefully, you will see a "ditch" with raised metal on one or both sides.

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• ChangeInHistory Posts: 3,109 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 11, 2014 8:13AM

  Positive, I just double checked. Not my best image lighting

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 11, 2014 8:14AM

  Hope this helps and makes sense?
  
  It's hard to tell if these are 2 die cracks or just 1 lengthy internal rim cud shooting into the fields below the S and T but being fully connected traveling the entire pathway on the rim behind the tail feathers?
  
  

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• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 11, 2014 8:52AM

  If you follow the yellow line you'll see it's really just 1 as they are connected.
  
  I don't recall having seen this on another $2 1/2 Indian.
  
  However on Standing Liberty Quarters you sometimes see them designated by PCGS as either die cracks or internal cud mint errors.
  
  

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• ChangeInHistory Posts: 3,109 ✭✭✭✭✭

  August 12, 2014 1:13AM

  Here are some different pictures, angles.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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