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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;900fine, post: 837228, member: 6036&quot;]Thanks !</p><p><br /></p><p>The problem I had with crowning this one N-23 was Bob&#039;s statement &quot;Weaker crack always present from dentils through top of ATE.&quot; which this coin doesn&#039;t show.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reason that&#039;s such a problem is this die was also used on 1846 N-17 a year earlier and it shows the crack &quot;from dentils through top of ATE.&quot; How could an 1847 coin <i>not</i> show a crack which <i>did</i> show on the same die a year earlier ?</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe the answer is the crack <i>is </i>on my coin but I haven&#039;t spotted it yet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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