Hi all, Just asking an opinion of this 1967 SMS quarter in a 1967 SMS set. I noted a crack I do believe and some areas that I’m not positive if is machine doubling In God We Trust. Obverse left crack and reverse lower in branches crack? These are from my friend’s collection that I’m helping with so I want to get the best guide from CT! Thanks!
That’s a scratch on the quarter reverse. The IGWT looks like MD, and the rest is not clear enough to say except the dime is a poor one and no problem with the nickel…imo…Spark
Not an expert here, by any means, but the reverse “crack” looks like a strike-through. A crack is unlikely to begin and end within the body of the die without reaching all the way to the edge. If I were to guess, and I am, I would say a little bit of flashing from the rim of the previous planchet broke free and ended up in the next struck coin, giving a deeper dent in the high points of the die (namely the fields) and less or none in the deeper parts (letters and devices). A scratch works oppositely. It would be deeper as a foreign object dragged across the devices, leave a gap as it fell off the high points down to the field, and then possibly shallower as it dragged across the fields. Your coin looks like the thread or wire got pressed down into the cavities of the die before finally getting squished. A bit of thicker metal seems to have been in the leg of the R, making a bigger dent in the planchet at that end.
The quarter was looking like mint state, but the scratch makes it MS-details. If it is a strike through, (struck through wire) then I guess it would be Mint state/error. Because the nickel is not a proof, even with that tiny break on the left side the steps look very good to me.
Yes I guess with it being into the R etc.. I guess I was not looking at it as a scratch. Thanks again.
Sorry for the bad photos. Here is a couple of more of the dime… I was just curious since it is from SMS set.. thanks.
