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2008 - Broke-back Beavers
Posted: Sun Jul 12, 2020 8:05 pm
by Gini
Found two 2008 nickels with a die-crack almost cutting through the hump on the back of the beaver.
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Re: 2008 - Broke-back Beavers
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2020 5:51 am
by Bill in Burl
Very strange place for a die crack. Is it raised?
Re: 2008 - Broke-back Beavers
Posted: Sat Jul 18, 2020 8:31 am
by troubadour
Re: 2008 - Broke-back Beavers
Posted: Tue Jul 21, 2020 9:27 pm
by Gini
I am assuming it is a deteriorated die cracking in a weak point, as both coins pictured have near identical raised cracks. I found pictures of similar, usually smaller cracks online so it looks like it was something that started small and grew over time. You can see a bit of metal deformation just above the defect where the edge of the beaver meets the flat so there must have been some serious outward pressure in that point.