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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1186252, member: 66&quot;]Actually you express yourself rather well.</p><p><br /></p><p>From what I see the dies are in what is called coin alignment (the two sides are upside down in relation to each other.)&nbsp; At one time the dies set in the press improperly and the die faces were not parallel to each other.&nbsp; The dies then clashed severely.&nbsp; Since the faces were not parallel the clash is only present at the top of the reverse and the bottom of the obverse.&nbsp; Also since the dies were closer together there the pressure was much higher than normal causing the obverse die to crack severely from the impact.&nbsp; The&nbsp; crack does begin at the rim going between DE as you mention and fades away by the A in Francisco.&nbsp; This just means that the piece of the die did not break away completely and is still holding together there from the A to the edge. (But it may not have lasted much longer.&nbsp; I would not be surprised if that chunk of the die broke off completely within just a few more cycles of the press.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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