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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 4284487, member: 26302&quot;]Just so others who read this may know, striking a coin is a fierce environment. It is nearly impossible for a coin to be struck on a planchet this cracked, (if this had been a crack and not a massive chisel mark), without shattering. There are instances of broken coins where both halves are saved, but horribly rare. Almost all were discarded at the mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>Almost all &quot;cracked coin&quot; posts I have seen were either 1) ancient coins that cracked after crystallizing over centuries, (not an error but damage), or 2) post mint damage of either gouges or someone destroying a coin somehow, (freeze a coin in liquid nitrogen and place in vice and hit with hammer to shatter it). </p><p><br /></p><p>People do weird and horrible things to coins sometimes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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