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Message:: [QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2500077, member: 71723"]To me, that's clear from the differential effect as one looks across the letters of the word "LIBERTY". The L is almost consumed by the breakage, or whatever you call it, while the TY is unaffected. The E is at the San Andreas Fault. Presumably, the die has begun to crumble away to the approximate distance of the normal height of the letters. I'll bet after one or two more strikes, it was completely toast. This is like a stop motion frame of a movie of a die collapse at the critical instant. If it were incuse, I'd call it a foreign object crud on the die. This is the coinage equivalent of a glacier, the die, calving off an iceberg and this is the very beginning of that process. I'll bet the next few strikes would have made a nice movie segment. Besides, it was 1987. Have you looked at a BU roll of 1987 cents? Not our finest hour in terms of quality. Who knew a little zinc plated with copper would be so tough on die steel? We're not exactly talking about pure nickel here.[/QUOTE]