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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SPP Ottawa, post: 1838804, member: 39508&quot;]Is it just me who finds it odd that the example Mike posted (Lincoln cent) has the die crazing in the devices, but yours appears to be exclusively limited to the fields?? Your coin seems to have these raised cracks cross-cutting the radial flow lines.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just a comment - Canadian dies of that era were chromium plated, and you sometimes get interesting effects in the fields of coins struck by dies with the chromium plating chipped off (Hans Zoell termed that effect as &#039;Mortar Set&#039; in his 1960s variety catalogues. This &#039;chipping&#039; cause raised features in the fields.</p><p><br /></p><p>My knowledge of how US dies were prepared, and how US coins were struck, is poor at best. Were US dies also plated to extend die life?? Could this be a network of open cracks in the die plating, if the electroplating was not done properly??[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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