...both are too straight to be die cracks...could the dies have been scratched with perpendicular lines...could be but the simplest explanation is usually the correct one.
Possibly if the zinc planchet was damaged in such away that when the copper coating was applied, the lines on the zinc caused poor adhesion with the copper coating.
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