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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kanga, post: 279912, member: 9270&quot;]Typical of shield nickels.</p><p>LOTS of die cracks.</p><p>The US Mint was still trying to get used to the hardness of the alloy.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>BTW, I like extensive die cracks. Personality.</p><p>Nice coin.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If your nickel is anything like my 1882, then there&#039;s a LOT more die cracks than are visible in your image.</p><p>Some of mine are so faint that they&#039;re hard to see even under my 10x loupe.</p><p>But if I work at it I can see it going ALL the way around the obverse with lots of branching.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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