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<p>[QUOTE="jcuve, post: 706858, member: 13945"]CONECA says this about DIE CHIPS:</p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Arial">These are small raised irregular blobs of metal found usually at the design stress points. They are most often found in the recessed areas of certain letters or numbers (e.g.; B & R of LIBERTY and the 9 & 5 of the date). This is because the recessed areas of the letters and numbers on the coin are raised areas on the die, which look like little islands. It does not take much stress before these raised pieces of the die start to chip and break off, leaving a raised area on the coin where a recessed area is expected. <a href="http://conecaonline.org/image/1918S1cChipsInMM.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://conecaonline.org/image/1918S1cChipsInMM.jpg" rel="nofollow">1918-S 1c w/die chips in Mint mark.</a> (Coin courtesy of James S. Bailey/Photo by Ken Potter)</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="jcuve, post: 706858, member: 13945"]CONECA says this about DIE CHIPS: [FONT=Arial]These are small raised irregular blobs of metal found usually at the design stress points. They are most often found in the recessed areas of certain letters or numbers (e.g.; B & R of LIBERTY and the 9 & 5 of the date). This is because the recessed areas of the letters and numbers on the coin are raised areas on the die, which look like little islands. It does not take much stress before these raised pieces of the die start to chip and break off, leaving a raised area on the coin where a recessed area is expected. [URL="http://conecaonline.org/image/1918S1cChipsInMM.jpg"]1918-S 1c w/die chips in Mint mark.[/URL] (Coin courtesy of James S. Bailey/Photo by Ken Potter)[/FONT][/QUOTE]
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