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Message:: [QUOTE="Ferdyboy, post: 910166, member: 25361"]Hello gang, I was searching a box of halves yesterday and noticed that the box had many, many Gem BU 1995 halves in it---nothing so special other than I thought it very unusual--so I was setting them aside. I decided to give them a closer inspection and noticed that one of them had a die crack running from Kennedy's adam's apple (the very bottom left corner of the bust) to the rim.  I put the loupe on it to make sure it wasn't a scratch, and sure enough it was definitely a die crack.  So, I looked at the rest of the group (there were a total of 120 of these in the box), and to my amazement I found a PROGRESSION of the crack, from where it started out very small at the bust and grew progressively worse over a series of 5 coins until it reached the rim.  I have never seen a case where a series of coins (a quintuplet in this case) could be verified. I am somewhat at a loss as to who to contact to have these looked at and certified as a progressive series.  CONECA?  Wexler?  Or the TPG's?   Any advice as to how to handle this from the group would be welcomed![/QUOTE]