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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jtlee321, post: 2417259, member: 73983&quot;]I see where your thinking is.&nbsp; Die cracks will not affect grading, as they are a result of the transfer of the design and all the flaws on that die to the blank planchet.&nbsp; Therefor it is as struck and shall remain that way.&nbsp; Clashed dies are technically a mint error as the mint does not intend for the dies to make contact with each other only the intended planchet.&nbsp; Because clashed dies leave marks on each other, they in turn leave those marks on subsequent coins which can be very numerous, which in turn causes there to not be much interest in them or cause a significant premium.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is not the responsibility of TPG&#039;s to catch varieties for you, they are there simply to grade coins.&nbsp; If you submit a coin for variety attribution, it then is their responsibility to attribute the coin, because you are paying them to.&nbsp; There are a lot of Cherrypickers&#039; out there including myself, who check slabbed coins for unattributed varieties.&nbsp; They happen a lot.</p><p><br /></p><p>Die cracks don&#039;t make a variety but they can help you to attribute some.&nbsp; There are a couple of varieties that are due to die cracks, the 1888-O &quot;Scarface&quot; Morgan and the 1952 &quot;Scarface&quot; Franklin Half Dollar.&nbsp; Those are more of a die break than than a die crack however.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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