This is a picture of one of 28 pennies I have that I bought from my friend and took them out of the role and then he marks on them from Them sitting in a tacklebox with a bunch of other roles of coins he has, as you can see that pennies are delaminating on the head of Lincoln, and have a crack in the lamination
Nice and welcome! Before the pros get to you, Lincoln “cent”. Very nice wheat cent. Die gets worn or deteriorates over time depending how it’s stored. Pros will touch base.
Took me a minute. Those are called cracked skulls. They are called die cracks. Not a delamination. The second die crack looks like it runs to the rim between the D and W. Fun coins
You have a cracked skull and the second one is called a "Spike Head". Check this out Lincoln Cent Spike Heads 1950-1959 : Cuds on Coins (cuds-on-coins.com) And this Unusual Die Cracks on U. S. Coins : Cuds on Coins (cuds-on-coins.com) Many of these have been found and identified.
As I said, the pros! You may want to answer the new member instead and correct me on their reply and give them their answer as others did. Thanks!
I'm struggling to see anything at all - I never would have caught this but maybe in hand it's more noticeable and/or I'm just not looking in the right spots
Welcome to Coin Talk @BrianinND. Thanks for the post and good photos posted full image. These old eyes appreciated it. Not knowing your level of coin collecting knowledge, I don't wish to confuse you with rather it is a lamination or a crack, as neither increase the value. They are simply anomalies that collectors like to find. One could argue that your coin is a lamination error, where the layer of metal on the planchet begins to separate, as one side of the line seems to be at a different level than the other, which would lead me to believe it is the beginning of a lamination, but it is just as easily argued it is a die crack, as even Cuds on Coins show it matches SKH-1c-1957D-03, but even these sites have errors, in my opinion, so, unless you can provide very clear closeups, or the rest of your cents show the exact same characteristics (which would indicate a die crack), the point is pretty moot, in my humble opinion. Keep on looking and posting. Good luck.
