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Moonshine Valued Member United States 258 Posts	Posted 09/28/2008 12:30 pm Hello, What's going on with this one? Die chips? Die crack on shoulder to rim? Haven't noticed this much on one coin before IMG]http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/...6/195210.jpg[/IMG] IMG]http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/...952obv-1.jpg[/IMG] IMG]http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/.../1952rim.jpg[/IMG] IMG]http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/...shoulder.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p287/moonshine_016/1952Tincent.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p287/moonshine_016/1952lstalk.jpg[/IMG] IMG]http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/...52rstalk.jpg[/IMG] Report this Post to the Staff

birdstone New Member United States 1 Posts	Posted 09/28/2008 5:34 pm Hi, I'm new to this so I'm going to try and upload some pics of two pennies that have the same anomolies. One is a 1949d that matches the break starting at the top of his collar and extends downward. The other is a 1958d that looks like it has delaminated in two or three different spots. Report this Post to the Staff
coop Bedrock of the Community United States 62064 Posts	Posted 09/28/2008 9:11 pm Just extreme die wear. The devices wear the field to the devices making them snowdrift. (My term) the die cracks/chips/breaks/cuds com from continued use. The 1950's Wheat Cents suffered this a lot as they continued to use them till they almost shattered. Just what happened those years. Report this Post to the Staff
coppercoins Pillar of the Community United States 7629 Posts	Posted 09/29/2008 08:56 am Actually what's going on with this coin has nothing to do with die wear - the die that struck this coin was mid-die state. This particular case is one we can round down to 1952 cents, all three mints. Something happened that year for which I never really got any concrete answers, but a number of the dies were not treated properly and cracked, chipped, and shattered after much fewer strikes than expected. Die cracks and odd tooling marks are rather common for 1952 cents, so there's no real premium value for them, but these anomalies seem to clear up in 1953. It's the cents from 1953 through 1955 that tend to show excessive die wear, which looks completely different from what's going on with this coin. Report this Post to the Staff
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