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Obverse.


Gallienus (253 - 268 A.D.)
AR Antoninianus
O: IMP C P LIC GALLIENVS AVG, Radiate and cuirassed bust right.
R: IOVI CONSERVA, Jupiter standing left, head turned right, holding scepter in right and thunderbolt in left.
5.1g
24mm
RIC 143F (Rome) Sear 10237

 

Die crack, off rotation, and a small clash mark.

 

couple lincolns...

 

Around Stars


From eye to neck and hair bun to rim


Reverse from UNITED to STATES

 

Here's my 1809 Bust half , the die crack is hard to miss .

 

Nice original Bustie!

 

1797 Large Cent

 

I just sold this last week but it had been one of my favorite US coins for quite some time. One of my "white whales" is coming to market and I had to part with it to get my best bid together:

 

Looks like it! Down through the flag to the hand, right?

 

Can you find the die crack ? NY630M-6a R-3 .

 

I agree .

 

Wow. That thing is crazy. Really cool. It has so mush going on. How did it happen?

 

It is the famous Broas Bakers shattered die/die clash... there are a few different varieties with the shattered obverse I believe. I had one of my own a few months ago.

 

They used those dies till they shattered , I'd love to collect a set of them with the different die stages . I know the merchants that had one side a store card and the other side a patriotic were making money as they were basically making a cent that maybe cost 1/2 or less . They could make even more by just ordering 2 patriotic stock dies but then they wouldn't get the advertisement of a store card . Plus they were filling a void because of all the hoarding of any specie during the Civil War . So they used them until they were pretty shot , but this Broas store card is the most extreme by far of any I've seen and is pretty famous in its own right as non_cents said .

 

I'm guessing it took more than two dies to create the one rzage posted?
The obverse has very little clashing in relation to the reverse.
After the clash, the reverse die must have been matched with a different obverse die?
I can't wrap my brain around this one.