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This obverse die was on its last legs. The reverse is pretty pristine in comparison. This coin has nice luster for its age. The die crack on the obverse is impressive and can be see without the loupe. See the pictures of a big die crack. There are other die cracks but this one is prominent. If you have a nice George VI cent or other denomination with die cracks please feel free to go ahead and post below. Dog days of summer  .       Edited by SilverDon
07/12/2016 9:45 pm
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Nice..nearly a completely retained broken die.
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Cheers Alexer, they used the dies longer in the forties I suspect.
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That's a nice red penny in great shape! Thanks for sharing. I'll post my George VI 1940 quarter later. The quarter that year had quite a few die cracks too
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07/12/2016 10:44 pm
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The grade is not as nice as yours, but this retained broken die is a 1940...   "Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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I think the longer die use was a war-effort thing. The mint was at high capacity at the time and there were pressures to be economical.
In the Zoell minor varieties book, there are only a hand-full of large die cracks pre-1940 or post 1947, but the listings of 1940-1945 pennies and nickels go for pages.
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They were using the "good" steel for the war effort, so using top grade alloy for working dies took a back seat to tanks and guns.
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Noting the large crack on the bottom of the bust,
and continuing to the rim, I have see many dies
fail there. That one looks like a busy road map.
Thanks for sharing.
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Here are 3 1940's with die cracks. I found these looking through about 75 1940's I got in a lot of George VI cents about 40 years ago. These are reverse die cracks of course. I guess they are allowed.    Edited by Phil310
06/02/2018 4:24 pm
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I looked again closely to the original coin and it has two more obverse cracks, on the bottom of the bust to the rim as mentioned and connecting the VI to D. Great to take the loupe out on this one again. The die was a bit further along than originally thought. Thanks for all the 1940 contributions.   |
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