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Nice find, you don't usually see these on a dime much.
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Valued Member
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Thanks... this is the second one in a week. Just dumb luck I guess. The other spike head was a Lincoln Cent.
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And a die chip above his ear. John1 
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oh yeah! didn't see that nice chip. good eye John.
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Bedrock of the Community
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A real deal spike head. Nice. 
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Bedrock of the Community
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Same year of dime? If so, it might be from the same die?
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Sorry Coop. The other was a Lincoln Penny. However, I did find a die crack on another dime but it was on the reverse.
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This discussion reminds me of a "Peanuts cartoon" years ago.  So what does this have to do with this conversation? The dies trying to move the metal to a higher and lower location during the strike, cracks the dies. Thus the sight of mostly 3 die cracks on a Memorial reverse. I can't think if seeing 4 die cracks. But after the third die crack the stress on the 4th area is gone. Thus bending a cracker is showing the stress of the die. It is not mean to crack, but does when the die wear/die polishing/enough die events happen to create a die cracks on a die.
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