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Macgyvertrends New Member United States 16 Posts	Posted 09/15/2025 4:35 pm I found a 2012 Alaska State Park quarter the Denali with a huge die crack. I have a few suspect die cracks one in my pennies and one on another State Quarter. I know they show as raised lines. I look for a ridge where the planchet was squeezed into the crack of the die. This particular defect is a little confusing as it looks like there are 2 ridges with a crack in the middle when looked at close up. I am hard pressed to call it damage the depth is consistent across all the features like the planchet cracked. I used the light to shine on it from different directions to see the shadows. Is this what a die crack should look like? Report this Post to the Staff

jbuck Moderator United States 190135 Posts	Posted 09/15/2025 4:38 pm It looks like a scratch to me. Coin Collector Since 1978 Avatar Old Avatar 7070 Eisenhower Australia Canada World CCF Members on eBay CCF eBay Search Engine Report this Post to the Staff
nfine Pillar of the Community United States 3479 Posts	Posted 09/15/2025 4:41 pm with jbuck Report this Post to the Staff
JimmyD Bedrock of the Community Canada 21669 Posts	Posted 09/15/2025 4:46 pm Not a crack, a crack would be raised. It is a scratch, you can see the displaced metal on either side. Report this Post to the Staff
Errers and Varietys Bedrock of the Community United States 75418 Posts	Posted 09/15/2025 4:59 pm Not a Die Crack. A Die Crack would be raised, not incuse. This is a long scratch. I can also see displaced metal too. It's PMD. Errers and Varietys. Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16876 Posts	Posted 09/15/2025 8:12 pm You know how, when you plough a field with a plough, it makes a furrow - a ditch, with raised banks on either side of the ditch. The raised banks are made from the dirt which came from down in the ditch, brought up and dumped on either side by the plough moving through it. That's basically what's happened here. The "plough" is a sharp knife (or some similar very sharp tool), and the "crack in the middle" of the two raised lines is the scratch, with the raised bits you're seeing next to the scratch on your coin is the metal displaced by the knife, torn up and pushed to both sides of the scratch. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
Dearborn Moderator United States 98963 Posts	Posted 09/15/2025 9:13 pm yup! that would be a long scratch. Collecting since 1972. Learning from then on "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn." - Benjamin Franklin 7070 type set coin count: 51/76 Uncirculated American Silver Eagles My American Silver Eagle Proof Collection Sacagawea Dollars Innovation Dollars Eisenhower-Dollars Kennedy-Half Dollars Washington-Quarters Roosevelt-Dimes Buffalo-Nickels 1938-2005 Jefferson-Nickels Lincoln-Cents Report this Post to the Staff
donnie59 Pillar of the Community United States 782 Posts	Posted 09/15/2025 9:42 pm Big ole scratch!! Report this Post to the Staff
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