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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cpm9ball, post: 2689228, member: 24633&quot;]From your photo, it&#039;s hard for me to tell if it is raised or recessed, but I&#039;ll assume that it is raised. That would make it a die break caused by some of the die metal breaking away, and when the planchet is struck, metal flows into the void. (It&#039;s like the bank of a stream that breaks away during flooding.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The thing about die breaks and die cracks is that you can never predict where they will occur. I remember searching $250 Mint bags of Utah SQ&#039;s, and I found different die breaks all over the reverse of dozens of specimens. On the other hand, when I searched Mint bags of Georgia SQ&#039;s, I found 7-8 different die cracks that appeared on, both, the obverse and reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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