The value depends on severity and the eye appeal. I am not sure of the value, not much. If I was to buy a bag of coins with laminations in this condition, I might pay 10C a piece.
As already mentioned, not a die crack, but a lamination error. Quite common on War nickels as they hurriedly produced alloy planchets due to the change in composition for the the War effort. It is considered a planchet error, as it was that way before the mint stamped the design for the coin. https://metalpursuits.com/war-nickels/
I missed the war nickel. Laminations are extremely common on nickels. I sure wouldn't pay double value on the silver price. I should have added that in the original. The nickels would have to have good dates/and were known to have varieties.
Current melt value is $1.34…but the actual value is it’s historical (over the last 5 years) value at $1.25, which has remained unchanged from April ‘18 to today. If you then figure in the small lamination feature, it could go for, imo, tops $2.00 to as @paddyman98 said, a buyer who desired it…Spark edited for clarification: Paddyman98 was referring to the buffalo lamination on a different post, but it applies here and I wholeheartedly concur.
I wouldn't consider this lamination major. Nor the one in his other thread. It's neat but a medium range error.. Now this one from my collection is a bit more desirable (Major) In my own opinion of course
This always boils down to condition. I would assume @paddyman98 paid a small premium for the error, but the majority of the price was in the grade.
