I opened a roll of the prof. life cents and found 25 die cracks. Of the 25, 12 had identical cracks on the reverse. I shall try to describe: Starting at 11:00 the crack goes through the first T in states running south to his forehead, a loop goes east from the middle of the vertical stem of the T to the left corner of the A going back aand meeting the crack at the forehead, this loop seems to be filled with metal. Picking up the crack at hhe forehead the crack runs southwest down through his cheek down through his collar past the point of his collar running down the left side of his coat buttons ending just past the last botton. Another die crack starts with a small chip running south to the first fold in his pants. A final crack goes east from his left boot toe maybe 1/4 inch. This may be a trail. My questions are, is it unusual to find that many identical cracks in one roll and is what I'm seeing is the deteration of a die as the crack seems weaker on some coins and stronger on others? Not usually so long winded, thanks for your patience.
Of course pictures would greatly be appreciated. You would find cracks as you described together in new rolls, also a crack would increase in size as the die is used. Trails are something different all together.
Pics I agree pics are usually helpful but in this case the question was about the chances of finding the same error on 12 coins in one roll. I did ramble on describing the coins.....must have been something I smoked. :whistle:
Try here; http://coins.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=coins&cdn=hobbies&tm=5&gps=36_27_1251_776&f=22&tt=13&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.traildies.com/
New at collecting Yo, thank you very much for the Link to TRAILS! Just figure out what is wrong with my Lincoln Chronicle Set; I thought the US Mint had send me a trash Silver coin, it is loaded with trails, running away from the Lincoln image.
I've had many rolls (in other years) where that happens. It's not all that unusual. Once I broke an old wheat OBW roll and found like 8 indentical mint mark varieties....and it was a fairly rare variety as I remember.
Ptcture It not the penny, it's the Lincoln dollar that has all these circle lines that follows the Lincoln bust contour; it is like ghost waves all around yhe image. As soon as I figure out how to take a digital picture without the glare I will post it.:desk:
