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Message:: [QUOTE="Pop70, post: 2685525, member: 85114"]First have been in this hobby maybe a month now so tolerate me please. Second it is the first time I have used this microscope/camera, so once again please tolerate my mistakes.I picked up several sealed boxes of nickels from the bank 2 weeks ago and found these. The coin with the nastiest gash was the first ... studied it a bit and tossed it into the returns box figured it just had a hard life; about half a dozen rolls later found the second. Saw the little gash on the nose and it looked familiar. (All the rolls were mixed coinage, no Unc. rolls at all.) So dug through the return box and found the first.The camera I purchased has cross hairs in the middle of the viewing screen so I can line things up if I need too; I lined the smallest of the gashes up with the far part of the eye then projected that to he second gash and they appear to be the same, as the gash across the nose appears to be the same as the gash on the nose of both. Hope that makes sense. Now could it be that by some fluke, I captured a die coming apart? Being that they came from different rolls of mixed coins is this that unusual? I need some expert eyes and opinions please. And if it is a die coming apart, what it be called, certainly not "a gash" ? And if so I guess the chances of this happening again, and how it came about would be one in the national debt.[/QUOTE]