Is This My First Error Coin?

We love die cracks here in Oz. I am a very keen error collector and would buy a coin like this. Obviously error coins are thought of differently in Oz than in the US. To each his/her own eh?

There are some pretty spectacular die cracks on many coins - sometimes I think they used the die until it completely fell apart. Personally, I like them as well.

However, I think your coin has been badly cleaned, it has the tell-tale lines on it.

The only way to say definitively that a coin has not been cleaned is if you have never done so, and if it's been in your possession since it was struck. It does look to have marks that could have been left behind from a good scrubbing - see in the center of the reverse there where are lines? And the difference in coloration between the field and the lettering? These are some of the signs that a coin has been cleaned in the past; nalaberong was just making that observation.

If all those lines are raised, that's a different story - pictures can be deceiving, but from how it looks, they are not.

That's a great die crack, DV!