Hi Y'all, My first post! I hope it's a good one.... Just purchased this on Ebay (I didn't know it had the die crack). It looks like a very distinct error to me but I'm a newbie. Will some of you chime in and let me know if it is a die crack and if it is worth more or less than the $2 I paid for it. Thank you in advance for any knowledge you can pass along to me. I love this site!
To my eye it looks like a struck through error (in other words, something was sitting on the die when the planchet was struck, either grease or a fiber or something else.) Is the line raised (metal rises above the fields) or incuse (goes below the surface of the fields.)?
Thank you for the reply stldanceartist! I tried to get a couple of soft/firm objects to "hang up" on the area as I passed them over it. Nothing I tried did. The more I look at it..... It does look like it is below the surface.
For future reference, it's usually not great for coins (especially proofs) to drag/rub anything across the surfaces. A good quality loupe will help you in more ways than one. "That's how you get hairlines." (said in the voice of Mallory Archer)
Thank you Fred and stl! Any value to this? I'm $2 in to it. Either way it appears to be a one of a kind Kennedy no matter the value.
If you put it up on Ebay, it could bring between $20-$25, or thereabouts. There's no set price for such anomalies, so it might bring $10, it might bring $30....... If you want to sell it, Ebay would be about the only venue for this type of item. Hope this helps.
It almost looks raised to me. Put a single light source on it at a shallow angle either to the north or south of the anomaly and take another image, or tell us which side the shadow falls on.
