1984 Lincoln: Die Crack Reverse - Top of Memorial to Rim

Another Lincoln with a die crack found this evening…

 

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It can become a game, finding a cent where cracks have formed in all four corners.

 

You are right about that. This is the 3rd one I’ve come across in the past 8 years or so of occasional roll searches.

 

Add in the slightly misaligned obv die.

 

I find a lot of those. I’ve been studying up on those and I think some are misaligned dies while others are the result of minor tilted partial collars.

 

You just have to remember which is the hammer die and which is the anvil.

 

Please expand on this. I think you might have something valuable to teach me here as I’m fairly new to focusing on errors.

 

Honestly, I will have to read up on the subject a little, Anvil dies are set and the collar rises from the perimeter of the die upon strike. So most of the errors found are related to a collar and the hammer die.
Here is some info from Error Ref.
https://www.error-ref.com/?s=Hammer+die
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