I kind of find it hard to think how a die crack can have curvature. Only thing that I can think of is that the letters caused stress in the fields of the coin and the crack curved with the letters?? You will see it at the bottom if every letter starting at the E in one cent going all the way around to it looks like states. Originally i wasn't gonna ask but then I look at it closer and you can see the letters were affected as well ever so slightly ICA in America. So then I wanted to see if that line was some kind of substance so I did a wet swab of the affected areas and it didn't come off. Now it's bugging me. This is a 1984 Denver penny
Thanks for the speedy response!! Dang you gave like one second worth of time to respond. Literally lol
from what I can remember it's something with the die like paddyman98 said over time the die starts to deteriorate and breaks down and leaves circles around the coin. Most I have seen are on the reverse in the 80's which makes me think they may use the reverse die longer in the 80's than the obverse. just a thought
