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jclaireaoh Valued Member United States 105 Posts	Posted 12/02/2014 6:46 pm Can someone tell me if this die crack is significant enough to raise the value of this coin? * Edited by Staff to clarify topic title. Titles are important! * Report this Post to the Staff

Pete2226 Pillar of the Community United States 3331 Posts	Posted 12/02/2014 6:49 pm Is that a plating (gas) bubble? Report this Post to the Staff
Buddy Rest in Peace United States 7075 Posts	Posted 12/02/2014 7:02 pm Looks like gas to me. Report this Post to the Staff
jclaireaoh Valued Member United States 105 Posts	Posted 12/02/2014 7:03 pm Going all the way through the coin? How can you tell? Report this Post to the Staff
Pete2226 Pillar of the Community United States 3331 Posts	Posted 12/02/2014 7:43 pm Quote: Going all the way through the coin? How can you tell? I am so inexperienced at this that my thoughts should be appropriately discounted. To me a crack seems raised with almost vertically defined edges. A bubble appears more gently rounded. I hope someone will correct my thinking....? Report this Post to the Staff
junjun Pillar of the Community Puerto Rico 778 Posts	Posted 12/02/2014 8:01 pm I think it is gas. Report this Post to the Staff
Pete2226 Pillar of the Community United States 3331 Posts	Posted 12/03/2014 05:39 am Quote: Can someone tell me if this die crack is significant enough to raise the value of this coin? jclaireaoh - you might want to check this link. You will find an opinion of the value of cracks and other things. You can then test that opinion by going to completed sales on ebay. http://coinsite.com/us-error-coin-values/ Report this Post to the Staff
John1 Moderator United States 56855 Posts	Posted 12/03/2014 06:54 am Looks like a gas trail bubble to me also. John1 Report this Post to the Staff
Rackster Pillar of the Community United States 4809 Posts	Posted 12/03/2014 08:26 am Yes. Looks like gas to me. Report this Post to the Staff
Sudz Pillar of the Community United States 1572 Posts	Posted 12/03/2014 09:30 am Linear plating bubble... Report this Post to the Staff
SsuperDdave Moderator United States 23522 Posts	Posted 12/03/2014 09:30 am The key to seeing this is in the nature of the surface of the "crack." You can see it most clearly in the bottom picture - the surface finish, the granularity, is unchanged across the crack. A true die crack would look literally like different metal, because it never touched the die and didn't acquire the die's surface finish. Same with a die chip. Gas bubbles become very easy to identify once you visualize this difference. Report this Post to the Staff
coop Bedrock of the Community United States 62064 Posts	Posted 12/03/2014 09:46 am Sudz has the correct term. Everyone else has it correct. Common on Zincolns. Report this Post to the Staff
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