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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 4918204, member: 105098&quot;]the lamination on your link isn&#039;t necessarily the &quot;crack&quot; it&#039;s the &quot;leafing&quot; of the layer of metal on the surface of a coin that is peeling away. if you look at that edge, it has similarities to the edge of the ops coin they posted. the surface of a coin cracks and flakes in a lamination, caused by contaminants in the alloy that cause the metal to separate along the horizontal plane and peel up</p><p><br /></p><p>you can see this in the 2nd picture above the O, and the edge of it goingon the rim and down the coin edge.</p><p><br /></p><p>RESIST THE URGE TO PICK AT IT OR PEEL IT OFF! LOL.</p><p><br /></p><p>Probably worth a buck or two I&#039;d think as Evan said, it&#039;s pretty common on wheat cents, especially the small ones.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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