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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LaCointessa, post: 6360872, member: 87186&quot;]I am always having to refresh my memory about scratches v. die cracks.</p><p><br /></p><p>I understand that if the &#039;line&#039; is incused or sunken into the face of the coin then it is probably a scratch but that if it is raised and not sunken then it may be a die crack or the beginning of the formation of a die crack.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t tell whether the line is raised or incused from the photographs. Here is what it looks like to my eyes. Looks like the line with the blue arrows may be sunken or incused and the line with the red arrows looks like it may be raised.&nbsp; Now if it is raised, I am not sure whether it is a die crack or caused by blistering. Maybe our experts will tell us what they think [USER=44615]@paddyman98[/USER]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1251827[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a couple of links that discuss difference between die cracks and scratches and how to try to distinguish the difference. And I know there are more discussions of the subject right here on CoinTalk.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://cuds-on-coins.com/rim-to-rim-die-cracks-on-u-s-coins-2/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cuds-on-coins.com/rim-to-rim-die-cracks-on-u-s-coins-2/" rel="nofollow">http://cuds-on-coins.com/rim-to-rim-die-cracks-on-u-s-coins-2/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1022804/die-crack-or-scratch" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1022804/die-crack-or-scratch" rel="nofollow">https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1022804/die-crack-or-scratch</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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