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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 3127375, member: 27832&quot;]We&#039;re rough on people who come in insisting that they&#039;ve struck it rich because they found a coin that was run over in the parking lot or pounded with a hammer. This ain&#039;t one of those!</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s a <i>massive</i> cud (where a piece has broken off the die). See how the letters on the reverse are weaker in the same place where the cud appears on the obverse? The two dies are supposed to press the planchet together between them, but since a big chunk of that obverse die was <i>gone</i>, there wasn&#039;t enough pressure there to bring up the design on the reverse there.</p><p><br /></p><p>I also see a strong clash above LIBERTY -- those vertical lines are the columns from the Lincoln Memorial. The dies hit each other without a planchet in between, stamping the reverse design into the obverse die.</p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder if that was what fractured the obverse die?</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know if this coin is worth much, but it&#039;s a BIG winner for being <i>interesting</i>. Thanks for posting it![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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