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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Buck, post: 364456, member: 7475&quot;]After a period of time, metal stress or flaw will cause the steel in the die to crack. And it may still hold together for many impressions which makes die cracked coins fairly common. The error you see is a raise area of metal that flowed into the crack in the die. I think all these coins are keepers. Some collectors try to find coins which illustrate the breakdown of the die from the formation of a small crack to failure of the die entirely. Sometimes finding several examples to illustrate the progression. Many of the dies are replaced before they completely split apart, but there are errors found that were obviously made when the die broke apart, leaving some very dramatic errors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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