noticed these two while roll hunting. New into this and can't seem to find any solid info on this. Looks like a die crack if that's a thing..should be noticeable but just in case On the 1999 REVERSE it's from the R to the memorial. On the 1982 REVERSE it's from the E in " untied " to the memorial, the line seems to run ontop of the E making it seem a little fatter and can be seen about the E also. Thank you .
Yeah, those are nice die cracks. But, if you think that's cool, you should try and find a Broas Pie Bakers Civil War token. There are pictures of a few of them here: http://www.error-ref.com/broas_brothers_pie_bakers_shattered_die/
That will be a rare one to find, I fond allot of civil war stuff metal detecting and even found a 1793 US chain cent but I never found any token of any kind..
Actually, as CWTs go, it's rather common. I got a nice AU/MS one with some red left for $60 at a smallish local coin show.
I like finding my coins rather than paying for them..if I see an Indian head for a dollar or two I'll usually buy it.
Radial die cracks aren't quite as common as other die cracks that can occur randomly around the surfaces of the die. Chris
There also appears to be one from the bottom left corner of the memorial to the rim. A very common place to see one.
Actually they are not rare. They have several errors: a shattered die, die clash, rotated die, and one more I cannot remember right now. I saw my first one that was struck in Lead this past weekend. Just opened the link above to find out what I forgot but could not scroll down. Anyway, looks like everything I remembered is in the title of the link.
Wow, really? I had no idea these existed in any metal other than copper, but I'm not really big into CWTs anyway. I only have this one because of the awesome shattered die and clash marks.
I collected CWT in 1970's when I worked for a token and medal dealer. They were "little orphans" for most dealers and VERY inexpensive. if I remember this particular token was struck in everything Copper, brass, nickel, lead, copper-nickel, white metal, and others...
Radial die cracks are new to me but the straightness of these cracks look almost radial but not truly pointing to the center. That is still true of that short one that Conder noticed.
