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Message:: [QUOTE="900fine, post: 723547, member: 6036"]Hmmmm.... interesting question in the context of EACs. Short answer - no. The problems were more "grade costly" than minor die cracks. On EACs, fine die cracks are not generally problems. Quite the opposite; many folks collect die states of a given variety, so die cracks are collectable in and of themselves. In fact, I have rarely seen anything so instructive as looking at 15 different die states of the same die variety. Lay out 15 coins, and try to arrange them in emission order. Fascinating ! Another factor is EACs are so different from the OP, which is a strong MS coin. Almost none of the coins in the coppers catalogs I'm talking about were MS coins. I think many folks have a very different perception of flaws of any kind when we're in the MS64 - 66 range. At lofty grades, folks have every right to be very, very picky, and MS65, being "gem", is a milestone of sorts.  I can see how some folks would treat a die crack on a VF25 coin as "not a problem", but the same die crack would be a problem on a high grade coin (i.e. knock it down from 66 to 65). Personally, I enjoy die cracks and clashes and do not feel they necessarily disqualify a coin from MS66 status - if fabulous in all other regards, why should a die state cost you ? But higher than 66 should show little if any die degradation. So I put die states in a different category from bad planchets and weak strikes; the latter have more effect on grade.[/QUOTE]