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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cliff Reuter, post: 8033352, member: 115140&quot;]Others have a lot more experience than I but the reason I was thinking this may be a bisecting die crack on the die is that for the obverse details to be showing through this well it must be a very late stage die cap. </p><p><br /></p><p>And if it is (Very Late Stage Die Cap) I wouldn&#039;t think the raised line would be as tall as it appears. The die cap gets thinner and thinner with each strike. Not much of the die cap would be left to obscure the obverse details or to create that tall of a raised line. I was thinking some of the metal was being forced into a crack on the die.</p><p><br /></p><p>IMHO a die crack could also help &quot;hold&quot; the die cap to the die.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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