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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;RonSanderson, post: 26515010, member: 77413&quot;]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. </p><p><br /></p><p>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).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1690161[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>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.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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