I'm an AP Statistics teacher at a nearby high school. Every year, I go by the nearby bank and we run a population of pennies in circulation and compare it to actial numbers. It makes for a really good lesson about skewdness and why the population is nothing like the actual numbers...but I ramble. Today, we tallied 3200 pennies (64 rolls), and I have them pull out years with errors. Here's two cracked dies and a 1942 Canadian cent.
Yep. Three years ago, there was a 1943 steel penny. Four years ago, we found a 1898 Indian Head penny. I just wish I had data on die breaks and other variations. I also bring history into the class.
To start check out the link below it is CCF's members posting their die cracks, 35 pages of it you can share with your students.I do not believe there is a registry like DDO's for diecracks. Your teaching and educating the future Numismatists is admirable
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