1899 O Morgan dollar large damage die

Hello guys !

I have this beautiful Morgan Dollar with a huge circular damage die on reverse.
Does this damage add a value to this morgan ?
In France we have a real market to error and damaged coin but I don't know fo US.



Best regards from France

 

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Nice find, mon amie! That's due to a cracked die.
There are others that will be able to tell you more.

 

Thanks

 

This site has alot of information.
http://ec2-13-58-222-16.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wiki/Die_Crack
Nice coin and photos.

 

not die damage, a die crack

 

Where in France?

 

Thanks for the info. I thought a crack would be damage. Sure is a nice looking coin.

 

So we differentiate between damage (which is generally what we say happens to a coin after it's been minted) and things like die cracks, which are flaws in the dies which make it onto the coin. Those we see as varieties or errors. Damage for us is a "bad word" but use some fancy terminology like die crack or strike through and you'll have us all drooling.

 

Die cracks aren't errors or varieties either, they are die stages, just something that happens to the die as it goes through it's life from new to worn out and retired. A die with a crack is the same die as it was before the crack just a person that loses a limb is still the same person (although maybe with a different attitude.)

 

North of France, Area of Lille

Thanks for all your replies I learned something.

 

If you ever go to the coin shows in Stuttgart or Frankfurt Germany, let me know!

 

I was thinking a cracked die would be a damaged die.

 

Damaged COINS are bad, but damaged DIES are good. The OP asked about a coin struck from damaged dies.

 

Thanks and agreed, I realize I misread something from the original post.