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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;yakpoo, post: 5365255, member: 18157&quot;]Technically, I don&#039;t think &quot;cracked die&quot; coins are classified as a &quot;Mint Error&quot;. Many coins over the years have been intentionally struck on damaged dies, due to a shortage of dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve done a LOT of OBW roll searching of early clad quarters. I noticed that OBW rolls with a noticeable anomaly (e.g. die cracks) never had more than about 20% of the coins in a roll exhibiting the same anomaly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Early clad Washington quarters are interesting because the clad planchets are harder and resulted in more die cracks early on. Washington quarters typically crack along the perimeter of the Eagle&#039;s wings and along the perimeter of Washington&#039;s head. Just about every die pair exhibits some amount of cracking in those areas...making different die pairs easy to distinguish. In a single roll, anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>This led me to speculate that multiple presses may be used to fill a single Mint bag of coins...from which the rolls are created. It could be that banks dump multiple bags into their rolling machines, but that doesn&#039;t explain the 20% consistency. Either way, I thought it was an interesting observation and similar to the percentage you report.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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