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 MadmanNew Member
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Hey all!
THought I would get something going since we lost all the posts to those immature rear end holes!
Since I like the state quarters so much, I have been searching as many as I can. Well here recently I have been finding a lot of SQ's with die cracks. Low and behold, I found a pair of Georgias with almost identical cracks and was able to finally see the different stages of dies first hand. WOOHOO!!
Now I can die a happy man! LOL
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 coppercoinsSite Admin
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MadmanNew Member
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Well, nerds or not, I want to say thank you to everyone who has helped me. This is the best coin discussion board I have ever seen.
It is nice to know that I have a place to ask questions that doesn't have a bunch of infants that want to make fun of someone.
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Yes we are all respectful infants here....  
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coppercoinsSite Admin
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People ask me what I do for a living, and I have to let out a bit of a chuckle before I tell them. There hasn't been a person yet who completely understood what I told them unless they were coin collectors or dealers.
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MadmanNew Member
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Amen to that!
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 RobertSenior Member
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I remember seeing years a go a set of coins showing a progressively longer die crack, ending in a cud. Pretty cool.
If you have a copy of Cherrypicker's Guide, there is a Flying Eagle with a die clash/crack that turned into a cud. It's only a 2-picture progression but it's neat that a "before" and "after" were found. FS #1c-003, page 31 of the 4th edition volume 1.
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MadmanNew Member
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I don't have a cherrypickers yet, but I plan on purchasing one soon.
I think being able to see the die progression first hand is very neat and has really helped me as I learn about die varieities. SInce the first post, I have pulled 15 other die crack coins from my daily coin runs. I look forward to finding others that will show progression.
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| Madman wrote: |
Hey all!
THought I would get something going since we lost all the posts to those immature rear end holes!
Since I like the state quarters so much, I have been searching as many as I can. Well here recently I have been finding a lot of SQ's with die cracks. Low and behold, I found a pair of Georgias with almost identical cracks and was able to finally see the different stages of dies first hand. WOOHOO!!
Now I can die a happy man! LOL |
Since you found two coins from the same die on relatively recent quarters the odds are very high that these coins were released in your area. After about ten years the coins get mixed up pretty good and it is far less likely to find two such examples. If you bought a box of coins at the issue point there would probably have been as many as fifty or a hundred in it. Of course this window for finding these is limited in time also.
Errors and varieties are very instructive. All collectors should study each of the different types of errors and high grade collectors should pay particlur attention to alignment errors and off center strikes. Die cracks are especially fun when you can get a progression to a major cud or even the type of catastrophic failure evidenced by multiple cuds. One of my favorites is the '83-P quarter with cuds on both sides. There are die gouges in it from the broken pieces of die. (unfortunately the cause can't be positively identified even if it is obvious).
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