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Pillar of the Community
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Edited by robbudo
01/07/2012 11:10 am
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Pillar of the Community
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I don't think that a planchet issue, I think it's a die issue. Either way this is a nice one.
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Pillar of the Community
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Right - cracked die. But only a google images search of 'cracked planchet' pulls up pictures like mine. What should it be called?
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Bedrock of the Community
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Bisecting die crack with an internal retained die break. This die probably didn't last much longer.
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Pillar of the Community
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thanks Conder! I changed the title appropriately. Very cool find, can't imagine there are many others.
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Pillar of the Community
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That die is toast!Nice one! Well worth the 5ยข invested!
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I don't consider small die cracks errors but this one is extreme. Very nice error coin.
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Pillar of the Community
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This would be properly termed a "split die" error. It's straddled by an area where the die face sank in (a "die subsidence" or "sunken die" error). I'm uncomfortable calling it a retained interior die break because only the right side of the bulge is sharply demarcated. However, the two error types tend to grade into each other.
Error coin writer and researcher.
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Pillar of the Community
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Thanks mike. I just read your piece for Coin World about these errors and was hoping you would chime in! Any clue how many coins can be struck before the die fails (or what the average could be)? |
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Rest in Peace
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That die? A dozen, and stand back!
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Pillar of the Community
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Great bisecting die break! I must have missed your post originally.
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I actually just found a nickel struck from this same die pair over the weekend. The one I have appears maybe to be in slightly better condition. Still Lookin.
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Below are photos of the one I found last week. I beleive it is the same die pair. Still Lookin   |
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 I think you are correct! They sure look like kissin cousins. I'm not too sure how to interpret stages of breaks, but I would venture to say this one is a bit earlier than rob's, but not by much. Rob's coin break looks a bit more profound, pronouonced, bigger ? (if that is the correct term to use) Just a hunch... Edited by southsav
07/16/2012 3:44 pm
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