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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;raider34, post: 1609883, member: 16402&quot;]Indeed, I thought it looked like a die crack in the original pics, and the new close-ups seem to confirm that.</p><p><br /></p><p>To Rob, the problem is that a die crack hasn&#039;t been documented in that area for the &#039;89-CC (at least one isn&#039;t mentioned in the VAM book or VamWorld). I&#039;ve also gone through a good deal of &#039;89-CCs and haven&#039;t seen any with a die crack in that area, or even the faintest start of one. For a common Morgan, an undocumented die crack wouldn&#039;t be that big of a deal, but the &#039;89-CC has been heavily studied, and its die pairs and stages are well documented. Also, the mintage was fairly short, so there are only 6 know die pairs, possibly only 5, and only 3 (VAM 2, 4 and 5) that have identified die stages. The other problem I see is that the die crack on your coin is fairly strong which means it would have been struck later in the die life; yet no &#039;89-CCs have been recorded with any degree of cracking in that area. </p><p><br /></p><p>Hopefully you&#039;ve gotten a chance to count the reeding, that may help narrow things down.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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