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Message:: [QUOTE="cpm9ball, post: 3718800, member: 24633"]On Coin #1, the base of Washington's neck is a common place for cracks to begin. The larger chips you see along a very fine crack is not unusual. You can compare this to a riverbank during a flood. In some places, the torrent of water slowly eats away at the wall of earth, and in other places, it falls away in large chunks. The mark on the reverse looks like a gouge in the coin. I can see coin metal pushed up along the edge. As for Coin #2, it looks like it took a hit from the reeded edge of another coin. For Coin #3, it is always cool to find error progressions, but you need a lot of the same date/mintmark to follow the changes in the condition of the dies. The best examples that I found came in a 1000-coin bag of 1999-P GA SQ's. The first coin showed a small crack at the base of the neck near the designer's initials; then, on the next coin, it extended further to the left end of the base of the neck. On subsequent coins, the crack made it's way to the rim at 7:00, and on others, the crack extended to the right of the designer's initials into the field where it split in two separate directions to the rim between 4:00 & 5:00. I was hoping that I would eventually find a large cud from a die failure, but it was not to be. Shucks! Chris[/QUOTE]