Hi. I picked up some silver 'junk' and while sorting it noticed something unusual near a dime's mintmark. It looks to my under educated eyes like a small die crack, but I can't find anything written about die cracks on a 1960d. I would post pictures, but for an unknown reason the system is returning error messages ('there was a problem uploading your file.'). The defect begins at the bottom of the mint mark and runs down.
It could be a die crack. Die cracks are so common that you are not going to find anything written or published about the cracks on specific dies.
It could be a die crack. Die cracks are so common that you are not going to find anything written or published about the cracks on specific dies.
Well when 'the powers that be' wish everyone to know about a specific type of die crack and Van Dams they own, there is plenty we can find about it. My Capped Bust 1832 Half is a good example (overton 101). Lots of mention of the die defect on the birds wing. I guess knowing there was stuff like that out there is why I expected to find similar mention of the 1960d reverse defect. Lots out there about 1960 double lips defects on the obverse and number smearing. I am speculating if I found something new.
When they are describing classic coins like old half dollars, they will identify dies by the cracks and chips located on the coin. The older , classic coins are collected by die pairs and those details are important. On modern era coinage which thankfully includes coins from the 60s (If they didn't, I'd really feel old) die cracks, chips, and other super minor anomalies don't matter at all and the coins are not collected that way. Consequently, Old, classic coins will have literature on them while coins like your dime will not. You won't find specific literature on minor, die cracks and such unless they are being used as a die marker on a collectible die variety such as a doubled die. What you have is ordinary and common and seen all the time.
Actually that makes sense. Until fairly recently most of my silver was not in the classic coin category but instead was from in the post WW2 era. It is only recently I have begun to learn about things (folks) live Overton and Newcomb and the stuff they chose to write about (how's that for a way to spend one's life rather than leaving the house and mixing with society?).
I am not sure what is going on with uploading pictures. I had no problem doing it with the old software here, but with this new software I often get the error message with no explanation. Getting the one above into this thread took a lot of tries. Dunno what the problem is. Since one attempt succeeded, it isn't an every time error, so I won't be posting many pics until I get a handle on what is happening. Okay 2nd pic uploaded, but the third pic keeps erroring.
The images indicate that what is there is a gouge of some kind , caused by an unknown object as the coin circulated. So it isn't a die crack but is , as noted Post Mint Damage.
LoL. I can accept that. No wonder I can find nothing about it. Into the junk silver box it goes. Danke
