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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;howards, post: 2919610, member: 299&quot;]I would add a couple things to this:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) Die cracks/breaks are by no means restricted to the date area.&nbsp; They occur all over the coin.&nbsp; Frequently they originate from a point where the coin&#039;s devices intersect the fields.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>2) The hardness of the planchets and the lack of metallurgical knowledge to prepare suitably hardened dies was exacerbated by the thickness of the shield nickel planchet.&nbsp; Shield nickel planchets have a small diameter than modern nickels but the same weight, so they are thicker and therefore harder to strike in a coin press.&nbsp; (This is why the diameter of the nickel was increased for the Liberty nickels.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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