I found this among my grandmother's coins, but I wasn't able to find much information about this error. The crack is significant and goes almost all the way through the obverse, as you can see. About how much would it be worth? Thanks
I'm in the "that coin took a hit column." PMD Someone used a wood chisel on metal. That's just wrong!!
Just so others who read this may know, striking a coin is a fierce environment. It is nearly impossible for a coin to be struck on a planchet this cracked, (if this had been a crack and not a massive chisel mark), without shattering. There are instances of broken coins where both halves are saved, but horribly rare. Almost all were discarded at the mint. Almost all "cracked coin" posts I have seen were either 1) ancient coins that cracked after crystallizing over centuries, (not an error but damage), or 2) post mint damage of either gouges or someone destroying a coin somehow, (freeze a coin in liquid nitrogen and place in vice and hit with hammer to shatter it). People do weird and horrible things to coins sometimes.
We had a club when I was a kid where our official currency were pennies flattened by the local train. The hard part was finding them after the train flattened them.
Thanks for the new photos. They are much better. Unfortunately they prove this coin had been damaged. It's worth about $14.00.
