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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TheBigH, post: 289080, member: 9866&quot;]No, that&#039;s not it at all. There is no such thing as a coin break. The reason you see the sunken portion of the obverse design is because all the metal rushed into the die break on the reverse. I have a coin that shows a smaller cud with a similar effect. If you look up pictures of cuds, most will have this same effect. Metal flow can cause some very strange things on coins.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>To make it a little clearer, coins are not molten when struck. In fact, the dies do not stamp the images into the coins per se, but in reality, the coin metal is forced up into the design of the die. This means that when there is a large die break, the coin metal will flow into the recessed area, while simultaneously causing an indent on the opposite side. It is actually apparent in every major die break, thus carries no extra value, aside from that of the die break itself. In other words, what appears as two errors is actually just one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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