2009 Cent

I agree not PMD. I doubt we will ever know what was on there. Great find though Scooby.

Nice find Scooby. I'm glad you are enjoying the roll.

I'm not up on all of the acronyms. Could you please tell me what PMD is. I think if it was a wire ther's be more of a scratch as the wire came off, but as Ugly said, I doubt we will ever know.

PMD is post mint damage, which we don't think this is.

Value? There's no serious market for error coins unfortunately so I would just search ebay Canada coins for error and estimate based on finished sales of similar items. Yours being MS is quite nice.

As for the die crack, I've not noticed it in any of the ones I've looked at yet, but I am keeping an eye out for it now. I'll let you know if I find any. Was there any pressed through grease in the roll? I have found several of those, or at least what I know as pressed through grease.

Ok, I have started going through the remains of the box (actually half the box left) and I have found one roll that is head/heads and shows the die crack starting at on end, and more complete at the other end. I found another which has the die crack at one end, and not at the other. This may be attributed to a function of chaos in the manner of gathering them for rolling at the mint, or it may show the complete growth and repair of the crack. More than likely the former.

I accidentally erased a database this morning that I was developing for a project. That's what I get for starting work before my second coffee. It will take me a couple of days to recreate and rebuild it. After that I'll concentrate more on these rolls and let you know what I found.

Sorry - couldn't resist. I admit it - I'm a crack addict. I love finding them.

I found 3 or 4 of these that have no less than 7 cracks, but took pics of this one because it also shows some MD. There is also a fine crack in the Queen's hair, but I couldn't get a decent shot of it. Looks like a die gouge or chip inside the "G".

I cannot find any information regarding the Canadian Mint and die repairs. I did find that there is a variety of the US 2005 Minnesota quarter which is missing a tree due to a die repair. There is also a company in Oakland California which provides coin dies, and performs repairs on the same.

I'm still interested in finding any information on Canadian Mint procedures when a die crack is discovered.

I have a 2007 cent with a similar error that is realized in the first picture in this thread. However it's on the reverse and more central to the design. I'll post a picture of it. I also wondered what could have caused that when I found the coin.