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Rim to rim die crack?
Coin_nut1977
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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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Here is an example of a bisecting die crack, rim to rim.
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Thank you for sharing! Wasn’t for sure.
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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Sometimes they get really, really severe like this one, owned by BrokenCC in Carson City,
I can't see anything in the OP's super small photos now available at your local PCGS forum.
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
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.
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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This one has a rim to rim die crack on the obverse.
This is a broken coin, as opposed to a coin struck from a broken die.
Funny story about this piece. I was working for Coin World during most of the GSA sales, and I remember when we got the Press Release from the GSA about this coin. It told about how it was found in one of the original bags, and that it would be packaged normally and sold completely at random to some lucky buyer in one of the sales. It said that a letter would be enclosed with the coin telling the person all about it, and asking him or her to contact the GSA when they opened the package.
The sale came and went, and nothing. No word from the lucky buyer. Finally the GSA contacted the lucky buyer and asked him if he had received it. Yes, they had made a note of whose address label went on the package. The guy responded that he had received it and put it away, unopened. He opened it and viola! The GSA then sent out another press release about it which we dutifully printed.
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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.
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
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.
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Yep - happens with branch mint gold also...