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After looking at 5-6 1974 50¢ pieces I can see this is fairly common, found on at least 1-2 other ones from the same year, not quite as severe as this one, and none with the die chip, so I'd have to say nothing special, can anyone explain what causes this? At first I was thinking die crack now idk.
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It's a die crack and fairly common in ALL denominations and dates. You have to visualize what the die actually looks like. The beads are heavily recessed into the die and the space between is at the same level as the field. Between the beads, you have an extremely narrow sliver of metal that absorbs the 10's of tons of striking pressure and subject to cracking. The most common place for D/C's of any coin is from any sharp change of direction in the design, like letter serifs and the corners of I's, A's, T's, etc and leaf tips. Once you understand what die construction actually looks like and the enormous forces that attack the metal surfaces, you won't have to ponder what causes anomalies that you see.
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Ya, makes sense. This is the first die crack iv found then. Most of the time it's to small for me to capture. And I don't see it on quarters and lower, but probably due to the size of the coin. So just an average die crack, not worth saving.
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Common in the nickel 50c and nickel dollar series, up to 1976.
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Wrekkdd wow what a coin. die doubled obverse and reverse. that is a keeper. wow the A in elizabeth has a different foot. Wrekkdd this is hub doubling. CONECA if you want I can get you the catalogue code from them.
Wrekkdd when you look at elizabeth check out her eye see the doubling in towards her nose. you can see hair on her face that is doubled as well. the beads are doubled with shift. there is so much more wow incredible nice one congrats
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Rocky, this isent a doubled die, someone with over 2k posts can be very misleading...
Even if it were a doubled die there is 100% no way you could possibly tell by these photos, and thats coming from someone with perfect eye sight and a nack for doubled dies IMO.
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Rocky ... I agree that it is NOT doubled either side. What you are seeing is lighting shadows or reflections, just like the many coins that you have posted on here that are the result of lighting difficulties.
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@rockey I don't think there is doubling but I'll take a closer look for you, I have 7 1974 50¢ pieces and a lot of the time I'm outside while looking at coins so light reflection is normal in my posts. If I find anything on then I'll let you know and post it. I think most errors are very uncommon on the steel dollars and 50¢ pieces made from steel.
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Your coin is 100% nickel till 2000 then they switched to plated steel
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@john100 thanks for the correction.
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Rocky, no. The 'shift' in the beads is from Die Deterioration, an observation which is also supported by the die cracks connecting the beads. That obverse die was nearing the end of its useable life. "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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@rockey. Here is a close up of the face and hair, sorry I can't get my phone to turn the picture up right. I'm not seeing anything.  |
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Posted 08/09/2021 08:18 am
