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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 3116813, member: 24314&quot;]Conder101, posted: &quot;Breen refers to them as die cuts.&nbsp; I think they are too heavy to be called die scratches, I&#039;d call them die gouges, but die cuts would be a good description.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, who can argue with Breen?</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;I don&#039;t see any die breaks on the coin, and as far as I can tell even in the terminal stage S-71 has no die breaks.&nbsp; Now if you mean die CRACKS (which I assume you do from the &quot;squiggly&quot; comment) then yes it does have those, but no piece of the die has broken off yet.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>You can call them anything you wish.&nbsp; Everyone else uses their own terms too.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;ll stick to this one from the &quot;old days&quot; before most of you guys were around.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Macmillan Encyclopedic Dictionary of Numismatics</b>:&nbsp; Die Break - A raised, wandering [squiggly] line that extends across the obverse or reverse of a coin.&nbsp; <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0)">A die break is the result of a <b>cracked die</b>,...</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Similar definitions for DIE BREAKS are in every reference I looked up.&nbsp; See, you and I agree! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; </span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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