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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2904268, member: 24314&quot;]It is NOT A DIE CRACK!&nbsp; You will never see a die crack peel away from the surface.&nbsp; Just to CMA: Unless it is on top of the lamination; but I&#039;ve never seen one like that - ever.</p><p><br /></p><p>cpm9ball, posted: &quot;If it was a lamination error, why does it not extend straight through the letters &quot;E&quot; &amp; &quot;P&quot; of PLURIBUS or the 6th &amp; 7th left-hand stars? This is something you would commonly see in die cracks, and I&#039;ve owned dozens and dozens of them. You might want to browse through the VAM listings for photos exactly like this that are identified as die cracks.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>It is not a die crack so what is it?&nbsp; Your post contained something I first noticed also.&nbsp; Part of the die break should go across a few letters as it looks like on the &quot;E.&quot;&nbsp; But die cracks are NEVER undercut.</p><p><br /></p><p>tpsadler, posted:&nbsp; &quot;I have been under the assumption laminations travel diagonally mostly with the layering of the planchet&#039;s material.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>IMO, your assumption is incorrect.&nbsp; I recommend you erase it from memory.&nbsp; Laminations travel in any direction on a coin depending only on the orientation of the impurity.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>dcarr, posted: &quot;I believe that it is actually a type of corrosion where some areas were protected by gunk on the coin and other areas were exposed to the corrosive environment.&quot; </p><p><br /></p><p>The coin is definitely environmentally damaged.&nbsp; I think this may be a deposit on the coin.&nbsp; Soak it in acetone overnight.&nbsp; Otherwise, it is a lamination although I have never seen a lamination that curves through so much of a coins circumference.&nbsp; Sometimes coins with hammered edges look like this as metal gets pushed toward the coin&#039;s center. </p><p><br /></p><p>If it is still there after the acetone, take a toothpick, sharpen a sliver and stick it into the crevice.&nbsp; Let us know what happens.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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