Posted 02/23/2013 05:38 am
As Dan says, it's a die crack. They are used as secondary markers by collectors to verify some of the more scarcer varieties, but a crack itself adds no value and may actually decrease it some, depending on the location. There really aren't a whole lot of Vicky Large Cents before 1890 that don't have a die crack somewhere and, even after that, they appear with good regularity.
