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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SuperDave, post: 2561682, member: 1892&quot;]It seems intuitive to me that the obverse weakness is a direct function of the reverse crack, which had to have sunk or warped somewhat albeit not becoming an actual retained cud. This is evidenced by the fact that some - but not all - examples with this weakness show misalignment, meaning the die was removed and misaligned at one point, and a full retained cud would have dropped away then. Perhaps it was removed from the press for the specific purpose of determining if it was still in one piece, and returned to service when it was found to be so. A survey of die states to misaligned examples - I didn&#039;t look at enough of them for this post to have drawn conclusions - might shed some light.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Fascinating</i> coin, lovely planchet, probably mid-VF by the &quot;usual&quot; grading rules. An EAC grade is out of scope for me. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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